"The Sixth Sense"

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This paper looks at the emotional undercurrent in the plot of this novel. The book focuses on the gift of a young boy to see dead people and foretell events. It compares the gift of this boy to the problems his psychiatrist has. The writer analyzes these characters and the special bond formed between them as they share their emotional baggage.

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""I see dead people," says Cole. This "problem" forms the crux of the book The Sixth Sense. The tale is a simple ghost story in many ways. It tells the story of a young boy who lives under difficult and unusual circumstances because he possesses a kind of gift of extrasensory perceptions. The is the child of a single mother and is ostracized at school. He begins seeing a child psychologist, a Dr. Malcolm Crowe, because the boy's visions are assumed, by the unknowing world to be a manifestation of psychological difficulties."

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