Chapter 1: The 15 year old Cole Matthews is a real criminal. He has been stealing a lot and now he also beats up Peter Driscal. He doesn’t go to trial but he has to go to Circle Justice. He has to go to an island and think about the things he had done and most important, change.…
Cole Matthews is an abused child who turned into a troubled kid because his parents abused him every day. He became an angry person who was willing to take anybody out in his way. When he got into trouble he would manipulate everyone into thinking he was sorry but he never really meant it. Cole hated everyone because anytime he didn’t get his way he would resort to the same violence and anger his father used on him. Cole thinks everything is a game, he thinks he should never be responsible for his own actions. Cole managed to get away with everything with no issues until he assaulted Peter. Cole thought he did no wrong because Peter told on him and anyone. Cole thought he could talk his way out of the assault charges like the other events when he got into trouble. The only reason Cole joined circle justice is because Garvey told him he could avoid going to jail. If Garvey hadn’t gotten Cole to join Circle Justice he wouldn’t have changed his bad ways. Being alone on the island, getting attacked by the spirit bear, and learning ways to relieve his anger through soaking in the pond and pushing the rock taught him to view the world in a new perspective. Cole realized that staying angry was the worst thing he could have done. He finally accepted his actions and saw the error in his ways. I saw the change in Cole’s character when he wanted to help Peter channel his anger. Cole never cared about anyone besides himself throughout his entire life. He was actually trying to help and wanted to be forgiven by Peter. Cole deceived everyone in his life and never cared about it. It was now in his best interest to become a better person, and rid himself of the evil he did in his life.…
The dispatcher told me not to follow the suspect & that an officer was in route. As I headed back to my vehicle the suspect said “You got a problem,” I said “No.” The suspect said, “you do now.” As I looked and tried to find my phone to dial 911 the suspect punched me in the face. I fell backwards onto my back. The suspect got on top of me. (p. 2-3)…
as he was nearing adulthood. Cole repeatedly slammed the head of one of his peers into the sidewalk for telling people he robbed a hardware store and left it a disaster. Afterwards, the Circle sentenced him to live in isolation on an Alaskan island. Cole had to chose between changing his ways or potentially going to prison for the rest of his life.…
Cole starts to trust himself, trust his decisions and believe in himself. Since Cole has been sentenced to one year banishment on this island his self confidence went drastically down. He shut himself down and ignored everyone who cared about him and wanted to help him out of his stressful situation. Cole has started to gain trust in himself because of the island, Edwin and Garvey, and the Spirit Bear. Cole begins to trust his mother after she went to court and charged Coles father with abuse. Cole’s mother stopped drinking and started to regain her relationship with her son and starting showing Cole how much she actually loved him. All of Cole’s life he felt as if his parents did not love him and did not care about him. Cole’s father’s anger problems caused him to be violent and beat Cole, hard. Cole’s mother just tried to ignore what was going on by drinking. She was just as scared as Cole was if not more. Cole’s mother was mostly drunk out of her mind, she drank away her fear and depression until she realized how hurt Cole actually was. After Cole got mauled by the Spirit Bear his mother went to court and charged Cole’s father with abuse and as a result Cole let his mother back in and started to trust her again. Cole finally started to trust Edwin and Garvey because they were the only people really putting in an effort to help Cole. At the beginning they were the only ones that cared about Cole. The first time Cole was sent to the island he wanted absolutely nothing to do with Garvey or Edwin. All he wanted was to escape from the island. Cole thought that they did not actually want to help him. Cole thought they were just paid to. Once Cole got mauled by the Spirit Bear he had forty-eight hours to think about everything, most importantly Edwin and Garvey. Once Edwin came to Cole’s rescue he knew right then and there that Edwin and Garvey…
Boys, I think we need to teach this piece of greaser trash a lesson," another Soc growled, so close to my face I could smell the suffocating stench of chew tobacco on his breath.…
Pow! Right smack in my forehead crushing my skull. The metal baseball bat knocked in my skull. It was a warm sunny day in the middle of the summer. Joey, my brother, was hitting tennis balls over my house. Little 10 year old me was playing in the yard and my brother purposely pushed me far away so he wouldn’t hit me. Oh how I was a stupid little kid. I was intrigued by what he was doing so I started wandering over to like how not knowing little kids do. As I approached my brother he was so focused on himself that he did not see me. When I finally reached him he had just set up to hit another ball. He hits the ball, but on his back rotation, the bat makes contact with my head. I fell hard on the pavement. Before I went unconscious I heard my…
My body is under attack. An attack I am all too familiar with. It feels as if an explosive has detonated in my head. I am disoriented and struggling to get my thoughts together. The pain is intense and crippling. I tilt my head back, and rest it on the headboard hoping for relief. I shut my eyes, and gently place my hands on my temples. As I begin to massage my temples, the invader silently enters into my thoughts and begins to taunt me, “You deserve everything you get, he whispers”. “It doesn’t matter how you try to escape me, I will be here. I will be here today, tomorrow, and for the remainder of your life”. Trying to ignore the whisper, I grab two Advil off the nearby nightstand, and wash them down with a sip of coffee. I squeeze my eyes tight, and begin to feel tears burn the back of my eyelids. My thoughts begin to become tainted with feelings of despair, hopelessness and sorrow. I open my eyes, and standing within arm’s reach of me, is my ten year old son. I choke back my tears, force myself to smile and reach out for a hug.…
The police, there they are as John was trying to sneak out of school. Johnny has tried this before and successfully done it. He feels as if the cops will catch this time but he wants to try it anyway. These police already know where he lives, but they don't know why he sneaks out of school.…
My owner doesn’t want me...she never cared. I have been feeling lonely and still do. For over a month, I have been hanging in that dark and messy closet at the back of the classroom. I smell awful! Want to know how awful? I reek of all the student’s body odour after they have come inside from recess! I feel as if I am tattered, worn down, that my threads are coming undone, and my colour is fading. Actually, maybe I am already. To be honest, I actually smell like a “Stinking Bishop”. Maybe that’is why my owner no longer wants me. Who would want a smelly, depressed sweater anyway?…
I was face first against the wall, held by my arms by lackeys of the resident bully. I had gotten myself into this position on my own, and expected no help from other kids or the staff. My name is James, I am 15 years old and I live in an orphanage. This had been my life for the past 7 years and I did not know much else. I had an aptitude for making trouble and it usually got me beaten up, or grounded. This time I had humiliated the poor boy by reading his personal diary to the rest of the lunch hall… Apparently, this was not a good choice, and now I was here. After he had hit me a few times, he made an unintelligible noise that apparently meant throw me on the ground, as this is exactly what happened. Before I knew it I was lying face up on the floor, being repeatedly kicked by the three boys. The first couple of seconds, I wasn’t worried. This was normal for me. But after that, I began to worry. I was scared. They had never beat me this bad, kicked me so hard. The pain was unbearable. Eventually they must have gotten bored because the kicking had stopped, but the pain was still there. I felt sick. It hurt to move. All I could think of was my bed. After waiting a few minutes, I had the strength to crawl up the stairs and into the building of which this lovely home of mine was built. I reached the staircase leading to the first floor and reached for the hand rail. Pulling myself up with its help, I scaled the stairs. One by one. Every step felt like someone was stabbing me in the chest. I came to the conclusion that I had broken a rib, but was so exhausted, didn’t think of reporting it. I got into the hallway and luckily for me my room was directly in front of me. Stumbling through the door, I slammed it and locked it straight away, convinced I wasn’t leaving again. This was my second mistake. I stripped off, clambered into bed and before you could say sleep, I was snoring. This is where my life changed. Forever.…
I am the King of Franks Clovis I. I founded the Frankish Empire, and the land of France was named after my rule. My wife’s name is Clotida, my dad’s name is Childeric, and my mom’s name is Basina. I lived in medieval times, and I was born sometime in 466, died somewhere around 511, and I was 45. My famous quote is, “And tell me it’s all in my mind, and we should leave it all behind.” My symbols are the Pagan Symbol which is basically a six or eight bladed sword, and a toad for some reason they think I have something in common with a toad!…
When suddenly, without any warning, I decide to bite him on the forehead. My grandfather bleeds for a couple of hours, and didn’t know how, was this possible, if I was still such an infant. That when my noticed, that my first baby tooth popped out. Thought out the next three year, I had eventually master had to walk and could talk a normally. Eventually, I took interest on studying the thing that occupied…
Her ambition to swing caused me to be in the way of her backswing. She swung right away giving me no time to move. She did what I told her and swung her arms back. Before she could swing them forward, the thump of my forehead didn’t allow her to carry on her swing any further. I immediately went into a daze and was ready to fall down. She realized I was going to fall and she turned around instantly and held me up right. She was crying hysterically, she felt horrible for me. For the next couple minutes I could only feel the droplets of blood dripping from my forehead onto the rest of my body and taste the blood leaking down into my mouth. I kept my eyes closed so it wouldn’t get into my eyes, therefore my sister directed me into the house where my parents were. I bleed all down my face and onto the stairs leading into my house, but the blood on the stairs was quickly washed away from the rapidly falling rain as it went from a drizzle to a pour again. It felt like I lost a gallon of blood, I felt as light as a feather. I looked in the mirror and the opening in my head wasn’t big, but was definitely frightening to my 10 year old…
To this day I still don’t know what sparked the incident. It started out as a normal day, but there was an unexpected visit from the agency. The man was having a fit of rage over something that the woman said, and was ready to strike. It was almost impossible to tell when he would become physical. One moment he would be yelling and hollering, and the next he would bound toward the closest child and strike them. He often wouldn’t stop until the child was bloody and passed out. I tried to take the majority of his beatings, often times shielding the others. This seemed to always make him angrier and he would often fracture my bones. On this particular occasion, he was about to strike the youngest who was only 4. She didn’t understand completely yet that crying only made things worse. I steeped in front of her, only getting there after he had already hit her once. His next blow made my vision go blurry. I stumbled against the wall, in the process knocking a photo askew. His eyes glinted and I went stiff with fear. That glint was a new thing, turning his reptilian eyes to those of a predator. He grabbed my own and brought his fist down. The force knocked me down and still he did not let up. My eye was swollen up, I could barely keep it open. At this point, he was no longer hitting me, but kicking me. He kicked my face, my arms, my ribs and hips. Anywhere that his blows could land. I swallowed a scream, I wouldn’t give him the…