Austin Johnson feb 22
The Demons of Anger
Authors Note this is a five paragraph essay about the effects of anger for Cole and people from history demonstrating that anger only hurts you not help you
When ever someone insults you to your face do you just let it slide by, or do you fight back? When that happens to you, you feel the emotion of anger and you will more than likely will do something back to them. Learning to control your anger is one of the most difficult challenges people have to face at one time in life. In the novel, “Touching Spirit Bear,” the main character Cole Matthews experienced many challenges in order to overcome his anger issues.
Cole the main character from the novel touching spirit bear struggled with anger and that anger almost sends him to jail, many others in real life also have struggles with anger. For Cole karma was very real whenever he does something bad it always comes back to hurt him. The first thing that he did that came back to him was robbing and trashing a department store and bragging about it. What happened because of that was he had to go to Juvie. When he heard he might have to go to Juvie he got mad and beat up Peter because he beat up peter he had to go to the island. If Cole had learned how to control his anger earlier he would have not got into all of this mess which is what happened for people in real life
For some of the great leaders of history their down fall was their anger. One of the fist first great leaders of history Alexander the great was murdered because of his rage when unsuccessful in battle. He was not able to control his anger so his expansion was halted, if he would have been able to control his anger he would have been able to achieve a lot more. Moving forward two thousand years Napoleon was never satisfied with what he had. He expanded so much but was never satisfied, the Russians angered him when he lost his battle leading him to make poor decisions during battle. One of the more modern leaders but also more infamous was Adolf Hitler when he was a child his dad abused him by doing so teaching him anger and revenge although his revenge was on a much bigger scale. There is a thin line between anger and revenge, anger is almost always followed by revenge.
The emotion anger is caused by your mind thinking the world or a person has done something unfair or unjust to you. Followed by the emotion of revenge, revenge is when your mind is trying to make (or at least tempt) you to restore order by evening out what has been done to you with a wrong to the person who wronged you in the first place. Anger and revenge work hand and hand even if not with the same person. For example Cole from the novel “Touching Spirit Bear” his anger was about him being told on for a crime he committed while his revenge was beating up peter.
Overcoming his anger issues required Cole to go through many challenges. Anger at its least is a grudge at the most war or murder. Even though most religions state that you should not let anger consume you, most people still give into their anger.
