Touching Spirit Bear

In his novel Noua Nautilus award winning novel "Touching the Spirit Bear", the author Benmi Carlson offers a painful adult story about a boy who must overcome the effects of violence.

After making serious injuries to Peter Driskar at a vacant parking lot, Cole Matthews, a mischievous manufacturer, was in a big dilemma. But instead of going to jail for a call there is another choice. It is to join Circle Justice, an alternative program to send juvenile offenders to a remote Alaska. Avoid prison, avoid call humility and agree to go

There, the call was beaten by a mysterious polar bear and killed. Thinking of his abusive parents, helpless Peter and his own anger led him to invest his actions and seek redemption - a spiritual bear who attacked him, his spiritual bearer From himself

Colliding Matthews, the protagonist of Touching Spirit Bear, is a violent boy. Throughout the novel, the call experienced complete transformation. Through pain, solitude, and the power of ceremonies, he learned how his anger led to his violence. The call learned to control this anger, in which he was responsible for his actions and learned how to take care of others. After all, Cole not only helped himself, but also helped the young man who was brutally attacked.

In Michelson 's novel "Touching the Spirit Bear", Cole is a 14 - year - old boy from Minneapolis. He is very angry, angry, fierce and violent boy, he seems to be unable to control his anger. He may be very angry and impatient, but at the end of the book he is honest, strong, introspective and diligent. What is the reason for the anger of the call? What is the reason why Cole became a better person? What role does Spirit Bear play? Cole has many negative features, but he became a better person at the end of the book. One of the main reasons for his change is due to spiritual bears. When the call was forcibly returned to the remote Alaska Island, he encountered Spirit Bear, which had disappeared before he could do anything. Therefore, he decided to kill it the next time he saw it. Another reason he wants to kill a bear is because it is not afraid of him. "If you see a spiritual bear, I will kill it." Call said (page 18)