What Life Lessons Cole Learned When He Went Away Analysis
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Mrs. Christensen
ELA 9
March, 24, 2017
What life lessons does Cole learn through his ordeal? Cole learns many life lessons throughout the whole story like for example not needing to prove that he’s telling the truth, how to forgive, and how to heal is anger. Each one of these lessons, Cole did not come up by himself. I guess that's another life lesson, you can’t do everything by yourself. I think Cole is like any other teenage kid nowadays, they think they're the center of the universe, and if someone doesn't agree with us we either pretend they don’t exist or we treat them badly. But in this story, Cole learned that he is far from the center of the universe, in fact is very very tiny, and he accepts that idea.
If you keep telling someone that you're right, then you have to come up with some evidence saying that your correct probably means that the person you're talking to knows you have a history of lying. That’s what had happened to Cole, he lied so much that it was pretty much impossible. Like when Cole told Garvey that he was serious about circle justice, but he just didn’t want to go to jail. He also lied about being sorry for beating up Peter during the first circle justice meeting. Cole will lie to get himself out of anything, but after the bear mauling he realizes if he wants people to believe him he has to stop proving that …show more content…
He used to resort to blaming other for what happens to him, and that it's never his fault. He always found a loophole for him to go through and put the fault on someone else. If you can’t take responsibility for your actions how are you supposed to forgive, not just someone else, but yourself. Self forgiveness is very hard because that means you’re most likely feeling guilty about something you did. And also guilt leads to being angry with yourself, and if you're angry at yourself you take it out on other people. So it all kinda snowballs up and leads to many terrible
Mrs. Christensen
ELA 9
March, 24, 2017
What life lessons does Cole learn through his ordeal? Cole learns many life lessons throughout the whole story like for example not needing to prove that he’s telling the truth, how to forgive, and how to heal is anger. Each one of these lessons, Cole did not come up by himself. I guess that's another life lesson, you can’t do everything by yourself. I think Cole is like any other teenage kid nowadays, they think they're the center of the universe, and if someone doesn't agree with us we either pretend they don’t exist or we treat them badly. But in this story, Cole learned that he is far from the center of the universe, in fact is very very tiny, and he accepts that idea.
If you keep telling someone that you're right, then you have to come up with some evidence saying that your correct probably means that the person you're talking to knows you have a history of lying. That’s what had happened to Cole, he lied so much that it was pretty much impossible. Like when Cole told Garvey that he was serious about circle justice, but he just didn’t want to go to jail. He also lied about being sorry for beating up Peter during the first circle justice meeting. Cole will lie to get himself out of anything, but after the bear mauling he realizes if he wants people to believe him he has to stop proving that …show more content…
He used to resort to blaming other for what happens to him, and that it's never his fault. He always found a loophole for him to go through and put the fault on someone else. If you can’t take responsibility for your actions how are you supposed to forgive, not just someone else, but yourself. Self forgiveness is very hard because that means you’re most likely feeling guilty about something you did. And also guilt leads to being angry with yourself, and if you're angry at yourself you take it out on other people. So it all kinda snowballs up and leads to many terrible