Everyone is born with a survival instinct. In Touching Spirit Bear, Cole Mathews has an anger issue and is banished to a remote island to heal from anger and almost dies. Also in Devil's Arithmetic Hannah is fighting to survive in the Holocaust because at first she did not want to remember and then later she wanted to remember and realized why it is so important to remember. As Hannah and Cole battle for Survival resulting in character changed, but the conflicts they have are different. In Touching Spirit Bear, Cole struggles with anger and gets worse before it gets better. The conflict with cole is he has anger issues and beats up a kid till near death. Cole wants to avoid jail so he does to an island to heal. Then Cole heals his anger
