Touching Spirit Bear Sparknotes

When Cole Mathews was sent to the remote Alaskan island he viewed it as a game, but it isn’t. Upon arrival Cole started off by burning down his shelter by using the white gas for his lantern and a match, which doesn’t serve him well in the long run. He has also encountered the Spirit Bear many times in the first few days and he even created weapons to try to kill it. After trying to throw a homemade spear at the Spirit Bear from point blank a lopsided match occurs between Cole and the suddenly ferocious bear. The Spirit Bear beats Cole to the edge of death and leaves Cole desperate to survive on the ground. Cole fights to survive by scrounging up anything he can find to eat, he starts by eating worms from the wet soil and slowly progresses.

Touching Spirit Bear is a prodigious book that teaches you a lot of lessons while also giving you the enjoyment that any good book gives you while you read it. This book starts off with a juvenile delinquent by the name of Cole Matthews. In the book, Cole smashes the skull of another kid named Peter Driscoll against a sidewalk and is about to go to trial when two guys at his detention center, Garvey and Edwin, get him interested in a Native American system of healing called Circle Justice.

In Ben Mikaelsen novel “Touching Spirit Bear”, Cole Matthews is a fifteen trouble teen who has been in trouble with the law his whole life. In this novel he faces his “last chance” at freedom because of his actions. Cole Matthews is a person who is angry, lonely, and a person who never takes responsibility for his actions.

Touching Spirit Bear is about a boy named Cole Matthews, who was mauled by a bear

Cole gets mauled almost to death and is left on the ground to die until someone returns to find him. This is resolved in Chapter 13 just as Cole was about to give up on life and die Edwin and Garvey find him and take him to safety. When he was getting taken to safety he knew that no one would believe him if he said he saw a spirit bear but he threw the fur in the water anyways because he knew he saw it. After this Cole has a different mindset, he wants to be a different person and be nice, but most of all he wants to help Peter get

I think the deeper meanings of this passage are that Cole doesn’t actually want to leave the island, he wants to stay and help himself change. It also shows that the more he thinks about this kind of stuff, the more he gets mad and angry at everything. He

"People can change in two ways - through slow, persistent pressure or through a single, sudden, traumatic experience" (Mikaelsen, Chapter 15). In Ben Mikaelsen's novel "Touching Spirit Bear," the protagonist Cole undergoes a significant shift after enduring a traumatic event - the Spirit Bear attack. This essay will delve into the profound impact of this pivotal experience on Cole's identity, values, and behavior, exploring how it catalyzes his journey toward personal growth and redemption. By examining Cole's transformation, we gain insight into the complexities of human resilience and the potential for positive change in the face of adversity. Before the Spirit Bear attack, Cole was portrayed as a troubled and volatile adolescent.

A coming of age story that I have read would be Touching Spirit Bear, it's about a kid who gets in serious trouble because he beats up another kid and he could do serious jail time. Instead of doing jail time his parole officer sends him the a Native American justice program called Circle Justice. When Garvey his parole officer drops him off at the shelter program and leaves Cole the kid torches the shelter and tries to swim over to the next island over to try to escape and never return. But the tide kept pushing him back in, and eventually he has to return to the shore and wait it out. But before he can try escaping again he runs into a bear, it's a spirit bear, a huge, tall, white bear that someone had told him was a spiritual being. Instead

The main character in Touching Spirit Bear is named Cole Matthews. Cole is a stereotypical teen delinquent who was raised with anger,

In Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen, the author, develops the idea that overcoming hatred, grudges, and your fears is possible if you let people help you. This can be seen through the characterization of Cole and how his personality changes throughout the book and by the way his actions change and how he begins to show compassion when before he just would demonstrate hate. The development of the main character, Cole, during his journey to Alaska and back home shows the change of his personality from the beginning to the end of the story. In the beginning of the book Cole’s personality was self centered and rude.

I had the same feelings when I read the back of the book. I truly enjoyed the novel. The description and detail of the bear mauling was intense. This story shows that children are a product of their environment. Cole's parents were alcoholics and his mother wouldn't / couldn't defend him against the constant beatings from his father. I felt so sorry for Cole but at the same time got so angry with his behavior. I believe everyone can change regardless of what environment they were brought up in and Cole proved that in the story. It is weird how the circle of

Fall down seven times, bring yourself back up eight . When life is put into scenarios of stress and pressure towards a certain task, sport, or a certain relationship, we tend not to comprehend and leaving our balance off the plank. Exploring around for puzzles and our environment helps us look deeper into what might seem as a regular imaginary picture, however it could be a delusion into something bigger. Your book, Touching Spirit Bear, brought up the thought of reality and how it has changed over time. The existence of this book marked a future from the critical side of decisions and effects it has caused for me to think more validly .

It was clear that his external factors had caused this. His abusive parents were a major factor for Cole. Having felt no love from his parents had turned Cole mean, to the point where he had felt he was all alone in the world. His community was another factor. Living in a bad neighborhood had probably encouraged some of Cole’s deviant behavior.

Others, like family members and influencers can help people in so many different ways. They can help people make the right decisions or reflect on their previous decisions and what they did wrong and right and what they could help them on. In the Circle Of Justice, Cole’s mother states, “‘I know Cole has changed some,’ his mother began, her voice surprisingly strong. ‘Sense the attack, I’ve seen a difference in his attitude. For the first time, he’s talked openly with me’” (125). Cole’s mother was Cole’s voice, speaking for him saying that she has seen change in him. Sometimes others can say what people can’t say and be their voice. Another relationship that helped Cole, was Peter. Cole knowing that what he did to Peter could never be fixed, he tried to it least fix and gain his trust and help him. “He took out the folded at.oow. ‘Garvey gave this to me as a symbol of friendship and to show he trusted me.’ He handed the at.oow to Peter. ‘Know I want you to have it.’ ‘Are you saying you trust me?’ Peter asked” (239). Cole trusts Peter and is now trying to help Peter make permanent change. Being that Peter was messed up by Cole, Cole wanted to make it up to him and be Peter’s voice, to help him change. Sometimes others are needed to realize things or keep in mind things, that others

The bear left leaving Cole there to die, well while Cole laid there he began to think about everything, he was scared, and he thought that if he died no one would care, but Cole began to care about the Sparrows when their nest was on the floor when the tree fell.