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Raising Cain The reason I chose to read the book, “Raising Cain” was because the book was about the emotional struggles and conflicts adolescent boys go through. By reading this book, I wanted to know what kind of troubled world the boys were living in today’s society. To understand the ways in which boys suffer and what the causes were for their emotional pain. I also chose this book because I too was a boy not to long ago and I wanted to know and also relate to some of the problems that I have gone through during my adolescent life. As a future educator I wanted to know more about the issues surrounding the lives of male students and the problems as well as their struggles they might be going through so I may better help them in life as well as in school. In recent studies, of all suicides and killings committed by juveniles, about 90% are committed by boys. Our society tends to overlook boys violent behaviors because of the notion that anger and aggression is a normal behavior for them. But what happens when those violent behaviors becomes tragic like recent school shootings? What’s to be done of them? When hurt, shame, or rejection becomes anger, and then anger moves swiftly to violence, our boys need fuller emotional resources to deal with their distress. By reading the book, “Raising Cain” I hoped to learn why boys were regarded as being difficult in school. Why boys might be considered to be worst students compared to their female counterparts. I also hoped to learn the psychological point of view of why the boy students might display anger or aggression and act the way they do and find out some of the reasons to their behaviors so I may help similar students when I become a teacher. Through the readings, I have learned that boys live stereotypical lives where they are seen as being macho, where showing emotion was a taboo and where the quest of acceptance is never-ending. Boys are hamstrung by a masculine taboo against discussing feelings that the feeling of anger and aggression displayed from boys are seen as a norm compared to other expressions such as sadness, anxiety and fear, which are considered a feminine traits. Although anger and aggression might be seen as a norm in boys, the reason the boys display those traits might be that the boys were disciplined in a harsh manner, and for the boys to focus anger and aggression toward someone else is their way of releasing their frustration that was growing within them.
Approximate Word count = 1718
Approximate Pages = 6.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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