Touching Spirit Bear

Can you imagine a world were no one person cared about you? I know I can’t, but Cole Mathews can. Until a parole officer named Garvey came along, that’s how it was. The book Touching Spirit Bear is and epic thrill ride that takes you though the life of Cole Mathews. This book follows a hardcore juvenile delinquent who changed himself into another good person in this world.
I definitely think that the At,oow is a big symbol in Touch Spirit Bear. It represents pure trust from one person to another. It showed the trust between Garvey’s family and Garvey, then from Garvey to Cole and from Cole to Peter. The totem pole is important too. A totem tells the story of its creator’s life. Instead of his life though, Cole just carved what animal he saw first that day. The totem is important because in the Cole and Peter started to work on a circle in Cole’s empty spot on the totem. Together they worked and they grew a small friendship; maybe not big but it was better than a year and a half a go when Cole only wanted to smash Peter. The circle started at birth and ended at death. In between birth and death was for Cole to decide. It could be friendship, trust, love, life.
I think that Touching Spirit Bear is a comedy. In the beginning of Cole’s journey everything is like it’s always been; Cole beating up other kids and robbing stores. The conflict arises when another kid in his school confesses to what he knows about a robbery Cole participated in. Before Cole was caught he had to have revenge on the kid who was going to put him in jail again. After the beating of a life time on the kid who snitched on Cole, Cole was caught and sentenced to one year on an island just off of the coast of Alaska. Cole finally realizes the conflict when half of his bones were broken from a bear attach. That’s when he realized that he was just as weak as Peter. He was just as powerful as Peter. He was no different than anyone else. He was taken to a hospital and kept there for the next six months. The resolution is when Peter’s parents send Peter to the island to stay with Cole after Cole is sent back to the island. At first Peter tried to ignore Cole and just stay out of his way. Cole just continued his daily life. A couple weeks later though, Peter and Cole started to talk. Eventually they started to work together and everything between Cole and Peter started to resolved. It returned to normal when Cole stopped hating Peter and Peter didn’t feel as if in danger anymore.
There are many lessons in this book but I think that the main lesson learned in the story is to forgive and forget. The sooner everyone knows that the better. Everyone knew what happened that day on the sidewalk. Peter’s face did get smashed in by Cole , but after spending A couple of months on the island with Cole, Peter realized that it wasn’t his fault Cole hurt him; it was Cole’s father who hit Cole. It wasn’t Cole’s fathers fault that he hit Cole it was Cole’s grandfather, and the list goes on and on.
I can’t imagine what Cole has been through but I know he’s been through a lot. Cole is now just another person in our American society along with peter. The island really changed him. The Circle Justice isn’t such a bad idea.

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One night I decided to look up spirit bear on Google images because Google always has everything. When I went on to the Wikipedia link. It came up as this bear named the Kermode Bear. I read on and found out that it was also known as the Spirit Bear because of its ghostly like white fur. The Kermode Bear lives in and near British Columbia, Canada. This is also where the story takes place.

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Touching Spirit Bear #1

Touching Spirit Bear is an awesome book so far. When we had to choose a book out of the four, I have no regret what so ever about choosing this book. I think why I understand it so well though is because my family is into adoption and fostering. We are currently fostering a 9 year old boy who was in Cole’s place. He does have anger issues because of it. There is a good side to it; we are trying to help him and it’s working a little bit every day.
Okay, I’m off topic. Back to Spirit Bear. I think that the part in the book where he sees spirit bear is kind of creepy. If I was just sitting on the ground in the in the middle of the night and I saw a giant white ghost bear eying me from a quarter mile a way, I wouldn’t care how bad my legs hurt, I’d run for my life.
I’ll be back soon to write more after I read more.

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3. In the beginning of this movie, Carl was a cranky old man. When Carl meets Russel, it starts to change his ways. When Russel is stuck with Carl he starts to rely on Carl to take care of him and his new friends. His new friends Doug and Kevin rely on Carl to. Carl knows that they

2. The movie Up is a romance. In the beginning of it the conflict arises when Carl hits the construction man and is forced out of his home. Just after the Shady Oaks guys come to his house to pick him up, Carl sets flight. He soon discovers that Russel has ventured his way onto Carl’s porch. Carl is stuck with Russel now but learns to deal with it. On their adventure through Paradise Falls everything works out perfectly. Even after they get back home, things are perfect. Cars house lands on the next to the falls and Carl becomes a father figure to Russel.

4. One of the symbols in the movie was the house. It stood for a promise that Carl made as a child. He crossed his heart that he would get their house onto Paradise Falls. It also held many memories of Carl and Elle’s relationship from the start.
Another symbol or symbols in the movie are the two chairs that Carl and Elle sat on all of the time. They represent the length of their relationship. The chairs were never moved. They always stayed in the same spot. When Russel decides to fly away with a leaf blower and the house is stuck to the ground, Carl gets the idea to get rid of all of the weight in the house. In that scene he starts to lift off of the ground and he goes a fter Russel, but the two chairs that he now through out of his house are still next to each other and they will stay that way forever.