This quote heavily applies to the protagonist throughout the entirety Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen. In this story, the reader follows the story of Cole Matthews, a fifteen-year-old juvenile delinquent from Minneapolis. Cole narrowly escapes going to court for assaulting a classmate named Peter Driscal after he tried to turn him in for robbing a store. Instead of going to court and most likely jail, Cole is sent to Circle Justice. It is decided that Cole should be sent away to a remote…
Healing happens when one was given time alone to think. In the novel, Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, the protagonist Cole Matthews is a violent teenager who was put on rehab isolation for his actions. Cole Matthews characteristics has evolved from negative to positive. Gradually, Cole Matthews changes throughout the novel and tries to help those were once effected by him. Cole Matthews started off as a belligerent teenager who has anger issues. Coming from a broken family where his…
Cole Matthews, in Touching Spirit Bear, is a normal looking kid with a few exceptions. He wore blue jeans and a shirt. “His blue jeans, heavy wool shirt and jacket…”p.5. Cole has dirty blond hair and is a 15 and a young looking kid.”He was an innocent-looking, baby-faced fifteen-year-old…”p.5 He is approximately 5’6 and 150 pounds. Cole is a narcissistic juvenile delinquent who thinks he is the centre of a attention. Cole is the bully of his neighbourhood to be his friend with him you need to…
The book Touching Spirit Bear, written by Ben Mikaelsen, is a fantastic book. The main character is Cole Matthews, a 15 year old boy who is a juvenile delinquent who was getting in atrocious trouble since he was 7 years old. He lives in Minneapolis Minnesota. Cole’s latest crime is stealing from a hardware store and that makes Peter Driscal who is a 9th grader angry. Cole was so mad that Peter had told on him that Cole had beat Peter up and nearly killed him. Cole got the choice to go to…
A moody teenager enters a wakeboarding competition, but first must overcome his personal obstacles to compete. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: MAHI RASHEED, a teenager, lives with his grandmother JEEG. Mahi also lives in the shadow of his father, who was once a great water skier. Mahi enters a water slalom skiing competition cheered on by his best friend CHIP CONLEY. SHIK LEE bullies Mahi. Shik competes in wakeboarding against BLAKE BOSS, a local legend. Blake’s sister, NILLY BOSS (teen), watches.…
Scarlett O’Hara Many scholars argue that Scarlett O’Hara, the main character of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, is a true representation of a feminist character. At the beginning of the novel, Scarlett marries a man on a whim to make another man jealous. On their first night together as husband and wife, she refuses to share the same bed as him. J.M. Spanbauer explains that this is a feminist way of thinking. Spanbauer states, “throughout the novel, Scarlett contemptuously…
the book still holds up to today’s standards, or falls flat on its face. The plot of Gone with the Wind revolves around the life of Scarlett O’Hara and the events that unfold around her. This not only includes the American Civil War, but the circumstances before and after the war. This includes three marriages, three children, and a heap of dead people. We see Scarlett trying to survive in the South after the Yankees have taking everything away from her besides her family and land. This all…
The female lead in Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O’Hara played by Vivien Leigh was a highly emotional and overdramatic character. The actress contributed her strong and vain role through physical action and characterization. Throughout the film, Scarlett cries, yells and overdramatizes a multitude of conditions thrown her way. I believe it is the combination of cinematic techniques such as editing and sound that created an emotional impact among the film. Without the way Vivien’s character’s…
novel which was written by Margaret Mitchell,first published in 1936 and adapted to film having the same name in 1939. Both film and novel received positive appraises from adorer all over the world. It is the story of process of a girl named Scarlett O’Hara from the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner to a commercially successful businesswoman who fought for her own and family sake during the Civil War and the days of Reconstruction. The name of the novel “Gone with the wind” was…
character of Scarlett O'Hara, a beautiful, bright South girl with a lot of modern thinking and open-minded, open-minded and open-minded lifestyle. She represents the image of modern women in a new industrial society, aspires to enrich herself and assert her position in society. Scarlett sought all sorts of ways to survive the war and advance into postwar life to become a successful woman. Gone with the Wind is also a romantic and passionate story, crystallized between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett…