Cole's Touching Spirit Bear

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My favorite part of the story, “Touching Spirit Bear,” is Cole’s transformation. I enjoyed watching him go from a teenage delinquent, to someone who wants to save Peter’s life after destroying it. With the help of Edwin and Garvey, Cole has learned many lessons and strategies to control his anger, he learned to soak in the pond, carry the ancestry rock, do dances, have feasts, and most importantly forgive. At the beginning of the story, Cole was a teenage delinquent who did not care about anything. He was beaten by his father all the time, and his mother just drank to make it go away. Cole robbed a hardware store and completely trashed it. He later bragged about it at school and was ratted on, after Cole found out who did it, he cornered him in the parking lot and smashed his face …show more content…

Garvey wanted to send him to an Alaskan island for a year, which was a punishment that Circle Justice did. Cole acted sorry just to get out of jail, and it worked. Garvey and Edwin, a Tlingit elder, took Cole to the island. When they got there, Edwin already had a shelter with supplies ready for Cole. After they left, Cole was there all by himself, and he didn’t plan on staying. Cole burned the shelter and decided to swim to another island, then to the next one, and the next one, until he reached Alaska or someone picked him up. What Cole did not account for was the tide, which swept him back to shore and left him very tired. Cole decided to wait a couple more days before trying again, and this time, he would do it when the tide was going out. Over the next couple of days, Cole tried to stay warm and keep eating. While Cole was sitting by the fire, he saw a spirit bear, it was a completely white bear that Edwin had told him about. The bear had more honor than the most honorable man, and Cole hated it. He hated it because it defied Cole, it wasn’t afraid of

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