Touching Spirit Bear Sparknotes

Cole is a 15 year old juvenile delinquent that has been in trouble with the law many times. But this last time there was no excuse, Cole had robbed a store. The word had worked its way around school and Peter Driscoll was the one who decided to snitch on him. At the end of the day Cole cornered peter and beat him senseless smashing his face against the sidewalk. Cole beat peter so bad that Peter can no longer function regularly, he will often wake up in the middle of the night screaming. Peter can’t walk normally anymore either. Cole needs to change his out of control attitude because the next time he might kill someone.

Literary Analysis of Touching Spirit Bear and The Devil’s Arithmetic Chaya and Cole are two kids fighting different battles to help save their own lives. Chaya and Cole are both going through tough times in their lives. While Touching Spirit Bear and Devil's Arithmetic characters have different conflicts throughout the story. Chaya and Cole are going through the same thing. Having to survive in harsh conditions and are going through life or death situations.

In the book “Touching Spirit Bear” their are a lot of life lessons/themes. There are about 12 of them, but one of the ones that stick out the most is “Actions speak louder than words.” This theme fits well for a lot of parts in the book. This theme you will see more frequently in the book than other parts of the book.

Ben Mikaelsen's book Touching Spirit Bear includes 3 major parts in the hero's journey, the ordinary world, Call to adventure, and test/allies/enemies. The author digs deep into the human body to find out how everyone can change, no matter how dark your past is. The author also shows that taking your anger out on other people will not solve your problems, it will only make them worse. First in the book is the ordinary word. The ordinary world is where the character originated/born and where most of the character's life is spent.

In the books Touching Spirit Bear and Devil’s Arithmetic they have many similarities and differences in conflict. In the book Touching Spirit Bear it’s set on an island with a spirit bear. A kid named Cole Matthews got sent to the island as a consequence. In the book Devil’s Arithmetic it is set during the Holocaust. The main character is a girl named Hannah and she has to face all of the consequences the people in the Holocaust did. Although the two books have a lot of similarities in conflict they also have a lot of differences.

There are many themes being shown throughout Touching Spirit Bear, but one that stood out the most is change. I learned about change mainly through Circle Justice. Circle justice is different than a regular court system because it gives opportunities to help someone heal and become a better person. It helps both the victim and the person who caused harm by trying to help the two. Circle Justice teaches to forgive, and to become better, rather than just giving out a punishment. Out of the many examples of change, one which had a major effect on everyone was when Cole was given the chance to be sent to the island. This had a lot to do with the change in Cole’s personality. After Cole was mauled by the bear, he realized that he wasn't as powerful

How would Cole have known, that the conflict with his dad, would affect his self-esteem. That is my question. In Touching spirit bear, by Ben Mikkelsen, Cole a punk, beats up Peter. He goes to an island to heal and does. But I’m not here to talk about that.

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

Ben Mikaelsen's self- realization novel Touching Spirit Bear is about a boy named Cole. Cole is a 15-year-old, whom others see as angry and evil. They do not understand Cole is only using his anger in the wrong way. The only people who understand Cole are two men, Garvey and Edwin. They recognize the pain of having anger. Cole is banished to a remote island in Alaska after he attacks a boy named Peter sending him to the hospital. Cole changes on the island helping himself and others along his quest to self-realization. A lesson Cole learns throughout the story is anger never leaves, but it shapes one for the good or the bad; it is all a choice.

Struggling to survive and fighting hunger is pretty tough when you are a teen. In Touching Spirit Bear Cole has to survive on an island alone after being sent away as a way for him to avoid jail, but he soon realizes why he really has been sent to the island. In The Devil's Arithmetic Hanna is tired of “remembering” her ancestors, but quickly learns why she must “remember” when she gets sent back in time during the holocaust and experiences what her ancestors when through. While Touching Spirit Bear and The Devil’s Arithmetic have similar conflicts they both have differences that set them apart from each other.

A lot of people have not read the book “Touching Spirit Bear” by Ben Mikaelsen. Maybe more people would like to read this novel once they find out about the many life lessons that are in the novel. The best of these life lessons are people should walk their talk,whatever people do to animals they do it to themselves and anger keeps people lost. The first life lesson, people should walk their talk is shown in the book Touching Spirit Bear in the beginning of the book on page 23.

Emotions can cause people to act differently depending on their emotions. But are people inherently evil? disgust can cause people to look at things differently, and joy can cause people to feel happy or enjoy what or who they are with. Holding onto anger causes negative consequences. This is shown throughout the book Touching Spirit Bear written by Ben Mikaelsen.

The theme of love and friendship in Touching Spirit Bear is a unique connection that Cole learns from people that he meets on the island. After the Spirit Bear and Cole have their differences the Spirit Bear gives Cole a piece of white hair off its back, Cole is shocked by the peacefulness and learns that everything may not be as harmful as you think. After Rosey took care of Cole from his injuries from the Spirit Bear, Edwin pleas to the Circle Justice to give Cole a second chance, they accepted the request. This shows Cole what friendship is because Edwin had been in his shoes before doing what Cole is doing. As Edwin teaches Cole how to build his own shelter and rituals Cole understands the amount of love Edwin has for him by caring to

Ancient Greece Paired Book Review Book One: The Iliad by Homer Book Two: Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen Prompt One: What were the most memorable moments in the books for you? Why? My most memorable moment is when king Agamemnon humiliates Achilles. The Achaean army ransacked a town allied to Troy and took two lovely maidens by the name of Chryseis and Brises.

Cole Matthews is not an uncommon young man that one would find in today’s society. Cole has not had a life I would call “easy” or “fair.” He had parents that as Cole stated, “all my parents do is drink.” (p27) His father beat him profusely. This is evidenced in the Circle Justice meetings when Cole said, “Or you’ll what?” “Beat me?” …..” “You’re still lying!” he shouted. “You’re usually too drunk to know your own name!” Cole knew these words guaranteed him a terrible beating next time he was alone…(p47-48) Cole didn’t feel he had any other emotions other than anger and fear. Many of us have had the same feelings as Cole, “He didn’t trust anyone who wasn’t afraid of him.” (p4) This is an