A review by meganwintrip
M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: A Novelization by M. Night Shyamalan, Peter Lerangis

4.0

Cole an 8 year old boy is in the need of a good psychologist, he ends up being the patient if an award winning doctor called Malcolm Crowe. Malcolm was shot the year before by an old patient from a decade ago, he can't help but see the resemblance between his old patient and Cole. Malcolm doesn't want to fail Cole like he feels he did with his old patient so he keeps helping Cole only to find in helping Cole it reveals what is really going on.

In helping Cole it seems to have an effect on Dr Crowe's marriage and his wife gets very depressed and doesn't talk to him, she seems angry with him and never lets him in to her thoughts and feelings that he is trying to help her with.

Cole sees dead people all around him, all the time and can't get rid of them. Once he reveals this to Malcolm he feels better but is also still very scared. Malcolm suggests he listens to the ghosts and help them, then he would get some peace from them and they could to to where toy need to be.

He's also scared because Malcolm doesn't realise he is dead, he died when he was shot the year before. This makes Malcolm realise why his wife won't talk to him, why she won't listen to him.. because she can't see him because he is no longer living.