Comparison Of Touching Spirit Bear And The Devil's Arithmetic

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Everyone has flashback but these characters have extreme tragic flashback. Cole has flashback that show him being abused by his father. Hannah wrote numbers on her arm and show to here grandpa and her grandpa grab her and started to scream at her in english and yiddish. In the story of Touching Spirit Bear and The Devil’s Arithmetic there is similar and difference between cole and hannah. Both characters have anger flashback that enhance the theme. At the end both characters change from being there old ways to new good ways. Both flashback evolve a family member being aggressive to the main characters. Both at the start as a stereotypic person. The main characters have a bad flashback. From these sentences these are truly similarities for

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