Transporting into Touching Spirit Bear

In the book Touching Spirit Bear Cole goes through many lessons, mostly the hard way. If I could somehow help Cole out in this book I would lend him a hand in the scene where Peter comes to the island. I chose this scene because Peter won’t forgive Cole for all the bad things he’s done, even though Cole has changed. Peter doesn’t believe that and I would try to convince him because he won’t even try listening to Cole, but I wouldn’t blame the kid. He’s been through so much since Cole beat him up. But, I could change his mind about the world. Or, I could’ve stopped Peter from beating Cole up when they were on their walk. Then he would’ve realized what he was about to do, and stop that feeling before it became an action.

The Importance of Forgiving

Have you ever wondered what life would be like without having anyone to love? You can’t survive with no one taking care of you every once in a while. Even though these two things are true, Cole, from Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, can live without them. He proved he could by his parents not loving him, so he didn’t love his parents. Also, he had survived through live physically, but not emotionally. This story proves that life is all about forgiving, and without it we would be nothing.

Cole Mathews is the main character in this book. He goes through many troubles in life. For example,ever since he was a little boy, his dad has abused him. After all the years of his dad beating him, he decided to be a bad kid. He robbed banks, beat people up, you know, the usual. But one day, he went too far. He found the scrawniest person you could find, and knocked his head into a side walk. Hard. A troubled teen’s life started with his father abusing him, in many ways. If his father would’ve left him alone, he wouldn’t have almost gone to jail, or beaten up Peter. But, because this did happen, Cole had to forgive himself, then his family, and then Peter. It took Peter a long, long time before he would forgive Cole, but that eventually happened. If no one forgave anyone, Peter would be dead, Cole would be dead inside, and his mom would be miserable. Forgiveness is a gift we all get, and no one in this book took advantage of it. Except for maybe his dad.

Another example of trouble Cole got into was when he got mauled by the Spirit Bear. The Spirit Bear is a giant white bear that only shows up when you are truly relaxed. Cole saw this bear, and was very angry at it, because it wasn’t afraid of him. So, he ran at it, and tried attacking it. His plan backfired, and the bear attacked him. He lost feeling in his body, and he couldn’t really move anywhere because he was horribly hurt. Cole was nearly on an island for three days, not moving. He ate a bug here and there, but he couldn’t move otherwise. During this time, Cole realized it wasn’t his fault he beat up Peter. And it wasn’t Peter’s fault either. It was his dad’s fault. His dad was the one that got him mad, and he blew up at Peter. Peter was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Cole decided to forgive himself for all the trouble he’s been through, and blame it on his father, because all of this was truly his fault.

Forgiveness is great. When someone forgives you, you have a different feeling inside. It feels like they gave you a second chance to live. Like you and that person can start over with your friendship. Cole from Touching Spirit Bear feels this way about Peter. They seem to have a strong connection at the end of this book, and it seems that they really did care about each other. Forgiving all lead up to this. Without it, Peter wouldn’t see how sorry Cole is, and how Cole has matured. But, he has now, all because Peter gave Cole a second chance, even though he didn’t really have a choice. Forgiving is the reason the world goes round. Everybody makes mistakes, but anybody can fix them.

My Prediction

Imagine being chased by people that want to keep you locked up in a cellar. Imagine being on the run at age 15. Imagine being betrayed by someone you really trusted. All of these horrible things happen to Chloe in the book The Reckoning, and she really doesn't handle her problems very well.

In my book so far, a group of teens all have supernatural powers and are being experimented by people they barely know. When they were being experimented, people told them they had mental problems, and where they were staying was a mental home. But really they weren’t mental and they kept them there so they wouldn’t hurt anyone with their powers. Now they’re on the run from everyone and everything. Including the Edison group, which is the group of the experimenters.

What I think will happen next is that they will run away, again, but get caught by the people that caught them in the first place. The Edison Group will probably end up killing one of them, because that’s what they intended before the last time they ran away. I think this because it reminds me of the book The Outsiders. Because when they ran away, two of them came back horribly hurt, and one never came back, because, obviously, he died. This happened because the teens were trying to save other kids that were trapped in a fire, and even if they went home and never saved those kids they would have gotten beaten up anyways.

This book is most likely to be an irony. It's obviously not very realistic because they all have supernatural powers,which doesn't happen to people in real life. Also, the characters go through many struggles as their enemies try to catch or kill them.

A horrible ending will probably happen to Chloe and her group in The Reckoning because they have the same issues in life; they’ve done bad things that people will never forgive them for. So, they also have a pretty good chance of dying, just like Johnny from The Outsiders.

Confession from Cole

Author's Note: We had to pick a paragraph or sentence that we thought was important from Touching Spirit Bear.

Hesitantly,he explained how he had how he had tried to escape the island and how he was mauled trying to kill the Spirit Bear. "I wanted to kill it because it wasn't afraid of me," he admitted.

I thought this paragraph was important because that Cole changed his ways by finally admitted something true. He admitted that he doesn't like it when people aren't afraid of him, because he likes seeing their reactions when they are. For example, when Cole and Peter were in the Circle of Justice together, Cole gave Peter the stare and Peter had a scared look in his eye, and Cole enjoyed it. He confessed something that he never would have if never went to that island.

Beginning

Author's Note: My teacher gave us the end of a story and we had to write the beginning of it, so here it is. (Where the ******************** start my story ends.


I thought diving was easy. I thought swimming was easy. I’m stuck with the fact that I can’t do either of these things nor have I tried, until today. I’m also literally stuck, in a pool, with my foot stuck. It’s feels like someone or something is grabbing on to my ankle, and it won’t let go. I didn’t think I would get stuck. Everyone dared me, but now I’m lying at the bottom of the pool. I’m stuck. “Someone help me!” I try to scream, but the only thing that happens is water gets sucked inside me. And my lungs collapse even more every time I struggle to say something. This is all my fault. Right now I should be in my bed, grounded. But of course, I’m not. My mom wouldn’t care if I die, anyway, that’s probably what she wants. I hope I do die, then I don’t have to face her. She probably won’t even be home. She never is. She gets home at about 11 every night, drunk. She wakes me up, and locks me outside. I tell my friends about my problems, but all they do is laugh. Everyone’s life would be better if I was gone. Only if.

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Then there was nothing -- only a silence that filled my ears like honey. It dripped down, insulating me from the world outside my closed eyes. For several moments, I succumbed to this silence, welcomed it, and hoped that perhaps it would last an eternity.

It didn't. From a distance, I could hear voices calling. My name floated on the wave of voices as they crested and grew louder, disturbing my silence like the squeezing of a balloon.

When it popped, I finally opened my eyes and faced the world again.

Elise the Duck

Elise the duck was out on a stroll through the park, but she had a weird feeling that she was being followed. Every time she looked back, she saw the same person walking behind her, in a tall, back coat that covered their face. Elise was getting very angry because this person was bugging her. So, she went up to the mysterious stranger, and them why they were following her. Before she got her answer the person stuffed her in a sack and took her away. Later she woke up in the middle of the street, while it was pouring rain, and she was holding a spork.

Cole from Touching Spirit Bear

Cole believes that he is invincible and everyone should be scared of him. Cole has a negative attitude towards his life. He’s always saying how no one loves him and they’d rather have him be dead than alive. Cole doesn’t really have any positive abilities, basically his only skill is being strong, but he uses that towards the wrong things like hurting people. Cole affected many people’s life, mostly by hurting them. Peter is a different character that was affected by Cole, because Cole had a fight with him, and now he has trouble speaking

Cole from Touching Spirit Bear

Cole believes that he is invincible and everyone should be scared of him. Cole has a negative attitude towards his life. He’s always saying how no one loves him and they’d rather have him be dead than alive. Cole doesn’t really have any positive abilities, basically his only skill is being strong, but he uses that towards the wrong things like hurting people. Cole affected many people’s life, mostly by hurting them. Peter is a different character that was affected by Cole, because Cole had a fight with him, and now he has trouble speaking