ipl-logo

Peter Schizophrenia

306 Words2 Pages

Peter’s character wasn’t portrayed emotionally as someone with schizophrenia. As a viewer, you can hardly tell that he is someone that hears voices. He really only shows it in the beginning when he’s huddled in the corner, covering his hears and rocking back and forth. This is fits in the diagnostic criteria of auditory hallucinations. Everything in the movie, even the background sounds are so loud in order to show us what it’s like in Peter’s mind. Peter also shows sign of grossly disorganized in schizophrenia. I say this because it leads to difficulty in some of his everyday activities due to the fact he does not like his reflection. He busted out one of the windows in his car because he couldn’t stand it. He ends up hurting himself due to

Show More
Related

  • Similarities And Differences Of Children During The Holocaust

    310 Words  | 2 Pages

    Peter is the innocent one. He is a little reluctant to grow up. You see their personality are totally different.

    Read More

  • What Are The Reasons For Peter Go To Battle School

    844 Words  | 4 Pages

    Peter was really mean to Ender and like to hurt him from this quote “Ender looked at Peter only to detect anger or boredom, the dangerous moods that lead to pain.” Now this quote is an important component that proves Peter was too violent to get in to battle school. Another reasoning for Peter not getting in to battle school is that he does not have feelings for other human beings, as this quote proves it, “ Slimy, huh? Well, bugger-wugger, let’s see how to break that face of yours.” This quote is another reason that just proves Peter is too brutal and aggressive to join battle school.

    Read More

  • Pete Peter S. Cook

    507 Words  | 3 Pages

    The beginning of his career was with the commencement of “Flying Words”, which is a performance created by himself and his partner, Kenny Lerne. They began by visualizing the story and acting it out, then transferring all the scenes into American sign language and English. Along with that Peter wrote other poems and was able to make a connection with his audience by sharing personal stories. They took it into consideration and were able to understand what it was like to grow up surrounded by hearing people. With the success of his career it led him to extensively travel around the country.

    Read More

  • Was Peter Justified In Nineteen Minutes

    749 Words  | 3 Pages

    Pg. 222). This evidence from the book proves that Peter was thinking of this plan a whole year before the day of his shooting. Additionally, Peter had been bullied ever since he was in kindergarten. He was going after people who had bullied him, since Courtney and Matt were victims of his. “ She opened the closet and saw the empty bottles and electrical tap and torn rags and everything else she had missed the first time around.”

    Read More

  • Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

    1104 Words  | 5 Pages

    And you’d be dead. And Everything would be fine.” (12) Peter has almost too much brutality that I characterize him as a psychopath that is willing to murder his own brother for his enjoyment. Because Peter was too controlling, hateful and brutal, and lacks any signs of empathy, Peter is not selected to go to Battle School which puts a distance between him and Ender because his brother was

    Read More

  • Identity And Innocence In Ender's Game

    1098 Words  | 5 Pages

    The two anonymous voices are talking about a boy who they have been watching for some time and want him for what seems to be a serious mission. 2. The characterization of Ender is he is extremely intelligent and can actually be very blunt. Peter is Ender’s older brother who is aggressive along with being a little bipolar.

    Read More

  • Examples Of Evil In Ender's Game

    1131 Words  | 5 Pages

    In the beginning of the book, he is portrayed as a villainous manipulator who bullies Ender on his quest for power and control. Later in the book, though, the reader comes to comprehend his motivations and recognizes that he possesses the capacity for both good and evil. Peter's intelligence and ability to think strategically are two of his best attributes. The novel's protagonist, Ender, acknowledges Peter's abilities in this area, saying, "Peter was smart, and he was already planning ahead" (Card chapter 5). This is a great trait for him especially since he interacted in a political environment where war was also a common

    Read More

  • Peter's Stereotypes In The Film, Non-Schizophrenia

    689 Words  | 3 Pages

    surrounding Peter, it still doesn’t explain how Peter is affected by his own classification. This could, however, be understood by looking at how people’s perception of those classified impacts the life of those in the classification. In the movie, non-Schizophrenics used Peter’s schizophrenia as an easy explanation of his erratic behavior. They ignored the motivation behind Peter’s action and instead brushed them off as the doings of an irrational person. As a result, Peter is perceived as dangerous schizophrenic who is capable of murder and shouldn’t be near his daughter, Nicole.

    Read More

  • We All Looked Up

    697 Words  | 3 Pages

    We can see his feelings of anxiety when he starts to doubt himself and goes to his favourite teacher to get some counselling. He asks him if he thinks that guys that are varsity athletes in high school hit their peak, then have their lives go downhill from there. He asks that because deep down he thinks that he has already hit his peak in life. A quote that really describes how Peter’s feeling in a nutshell is “This fear, of squandering your future, was already on your mind.

    Read More

  • The Veldt: Analysis: Man Vs. Technology

    835 Words  | 4 Pages

    Peter threatens his father later in the short story. He also loves the nursery as he says later in the story that he cannot live without

    Read More

  • Similarities Between Appleton And John Proctor

    900 Words  | 4 Pages

    The doctor had said he would soon start to remember things and as soon as he did he remembered who he was and what moral dilemma he was facing. Soon enough he had his court hearing and his lawyers had a statement for him to read specifically so he would not go to jail and he would be able to go back to his life in Hollywood, and forget all the events that had happened. While facing the court, Peter had decided to not go through with his lawyers plan and he decided to take manners into his own hands. With that being said he had proven the court wrong and was free to go and to remain living his

    Read More

  • Character Analysis Of Peter In The Veldt

    380 Words  | 2 Pages

    Peter is ruthless becasue he feels no emotions or regret in killing/murdering his parents due to not getting his way. Peter’s father, “forbade him to take the rocket to New York”(6) and his father decided to turn off, “every machine his hand could get to”(9), which had an impact on him resulting in his plan to murder his parents without

    Read More

  • Relationships In Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

    469 Words  | 2 Pages

    Peter is very dangerous and reckless. He has too much confidence and he does not see how much damage he could accidentally cause. Although, Peter knows

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast Anne's Relationship With Her Father

    713 Words  | 3 Pages

    Also Peter was shy and did not talk to Anne at all. Peter also did not like Anne and taunted her. Later on in the play Anne began to like Peter and talked to him. Also Peter was less shy and liked Anne. At the end of the play Peter and Anne liked each other.

    Read More

  • Theme Of Power Imbalance In Of Mice And Men

    1790 Words  | 8 Pages

    Peter’s only sign of straying from her plan for him is when he goes on the business trips where he “[gets] drunk” (“The Harness” 83) to cope with always having to be someone he is not. He tells his friend Ed about how his life has been “dribbled out” (“The Harness” 85) and how he has been living is

    Read More

More about Peter Schizophrenia

Open Document