Brief Summary Of Cole's Touching Spirit Bear

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In the beginning of the novel, Cole behaves cruelly when he becomes emotional.
He starts this book out angry, his thoughts toward Garvey and Edwin are terribly rude and mean. You can tell that he is a mean boy with a huge attitude. Touching Spirit Bear starts out with Cole in cuffs on his way to the island, this same time he acts out when the older men talk to him and he spits on Edwin trying to make him mad at Cole.The event at witch Cole beat Peter is why he is being banished to an island. These two boys are very divisive in the actions, especially Cole. Not to mention he smashes Peters, head in and attacked him because Peter told on Cole for breaking into the Hardware store. For this act on both accounts Peter goes to a detention center. Although Garvey is the only one who visited him in the detention center, Cole still didn’t appreciate anything Garvey did for him. He brought along ingredients one time to demonstrate something to Cole and eventually he gets mad and when Garvey leaves, he swipes the ingredients off
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Eventually he realises he doesn’t need to be so angry with the people in his life for his own mistakes. Cole is starting to become the person his surrounding family and friends was hoping he would be. This is after the Spirit Bear mauls him and taken home to the nurses station to heal. Now he sees there is no point to be so aggressive towards everything in his life, including the people and animals and wants to change. He wants to return to the island again so he can prove he has transformed. He is very Impeus about doing better this time and doing his best.The next time he goes to the island, he is so much better, he behaves and uses his surrounding and learns some great things about himself and how to use this on his journey of mending his egregious heart. Cole may still have violent tendencies, but he is getting better at staying calm and forming his

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