Touching Spirit Bear Final Paper

This book is Touching Spirit Bear By Ben Mikaelsen. Touching Spirit Bear is about a 15 year old boy who has been abused and is into crime. The books starts right before he beats up a kid. He then goes to circle justice and is sent to an island to change his ways then he almost dies and goes back later and wants to get rid of his anger problem and change. In the book there is three types of conflict Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs Self. In the beginning Cole beat up a kid named Peter and Cole then had to try to heal himself by learning how to forgive, get over his anger ,and learn to have a clean mind.

Before Cole went to the island he didn't forgive anyone. He had a chip on his shoulder and didn't have respect for anyone, He beat up Peter and knew nothing but to fight. When he got to the island for the first time he blamed everyone for him getting sent to the island, he never thought that he was the issue. Later on the island he almost died after being attacked by the spirit bear. Being attacked really changed him, When he went back to the island after recovering from his injuries he learned how to forgive. He then forgave himself for everything has done such as beating up peter and letting his anger get to him. He learned to forgive while dancing the anger dance on the island. He truly changed by the end of the book and learned to forgive.

Before Cole went to the island he had lots of anger. He went to 12 detention centers and he hated everyone. He denied having anger issues and beat up Peter and blamed others. He then went into circle justice just to avoid jail. He didn't want to heal at first and change his ways. When he was at the island he tried to escape by swimming away. He failed at swimming away and stayed on ...

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... Peter and Cole then had to try to heal himself by learning how to forgive, get over his anger ,and learn to have a clean mind. Over the course of the book he learned to forgive and went from having a chip on his shoulder and blaming everyone to learning to forgive by clearing his mind and forgiving himself during a dance. By the end of the book he learned how to get over his anger from beating up Peter to dancing the anger dance. He also by the end of the book he had a clear mind, In the beginning he did not have a very clear mind and let anger cloud his judgement. When Cole was on the island for the second time he learned how to have a clear mind by dancing, Soaking, and rolling the ancestor rock. Over the entire book you can see Cole changing making him to be a dynamic character which makes this book very interesting. Clean (past mining), No real meltdowns ever.