Touching Spirit Bear entry 1

In the book Touching Spirit bear there's a boy named Cole. Cole has anger problems beats up a kid and now is on an island trying to change himself for the better. This takes place instead of him being tried as an adult and being put in prison. On the way to the island Edwin tells Cole about spirit bears, how they live in British Colombia but that he would never see them. A spirit bear is actually called a Kermode bear, this bear is related to the American black bear, the difference that the two have is a gene difference that makes them a different color. Kermode bears are apart of many Native American tribes history because the way they look gives them a sense of magic. Edwin is part of the Tlinglit tribe which is Native American and tells Cole about the bear. Native American tribes from what I've learned throughout the years is that they were big in believing that animals had a sense of power and could help them with either their crops or just something that they needed to learn. In this case i think that the spirit bear helped Cole make a change in his life. Kermode bears we find out become a big part in Cole's change, when Edwin is telling Cole about these bears he has a smug attitude and says he'd kill it if it came his way. Cole sees a spirit bear and when he turns to get something to kill it with and turns back around it's gone this angers Cole, anger is the whole reason Cole's on the island. Throughout the book the spirit bear helps change Cole into an angry boy to a boy who understands himself and can now control his anger.


Works Cited:

"Kermode Bear." Wikipedia. 24 June 2008. 30 June 2008 .