Spirit Bear Book Report

What if you were sent to an island, all alone, with nobody there? Just imagine a cold, freezing island, with no shelter and in the middle you, just you, all alone. I could barely survive a week but never could I survive a Bear attack. Cole Mathews survived both, but not just a week, but a full year! Spirit bear is a book by Ben Mikaelsen where you follow Cole Mathews on his journey living for a year on a remote alaskan island. The main character in the book as you can probably tell is Cole. Cole is a character that is hard to relate to, realistic and also unlikable at first. Cole was a very violent kid. He was so strong and tough and he beat up a boy in his grade named Peter. He smashed Peter’s head on the floor so much that it caused serious brain damage like the fact that Peter now has a stutter. …show more content…
I say this because he puts a lot of work into his characters and detail, but not just physically but mentally gives description. This book takes place on the island that Cole got sent to. I think that Cole got very very lucky since it was either the island or jail and he's lucky he got the option. Since it was in Alaska the island wasn't like a typical island. It was cold, icy, even a touch of the pond would make you feel like your veins froze, snow trickled from the sky. It was only Cole and one other thing on the island, the spirit bear. Cole saw the bear during his first week on the island. Something happens that startled the animal and caused the bear to attack Cole. After the fight that caused a lot of damage to Cole he went to reconverti back at home with bad damage to his right arm but had to come back to the island. About six months later Peter's parents had realized that Peter was suicidal and Cole heard the news so his idea was to bring pier to the