Touching Spirit Bear Character Traits

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 jail or to stay alone on a remote island for a year. The island is supposed to heal him, unlike jail. Going to an island is a Native American custom. The remote island is in Alaska. He thought that if he stayed on the island he would just be able to shorten his time and get out of prison. When he is on the island he has to learn to deal with his own actions. At the beginning of this book, Cole doesn’t know how to stay calm so he is made up of all anger. He is also …show more content…
In this story foolishness is bad because Cole does things without care. He does things that he shouldn’t of done. One example of foolishness is when Cole flipped Edwin and Garvey. He proved that he doesn’t have the guts to flip them off right in front of them. Another example of foolishness in this story is when Cole tries to swim away from the island in freezing waters. He was also only had underwear on! He could’ve been dead after that terrible decision. Even if he wasn’t in the water for that long, he could’ve still been freezing on land. One of many other foolish decisions that Cole makes is that he attacks the Spirit Bear because it defied him. Why would anyone attack a 700 pound bear? Well Cole wanted to kill it by using a spear that he had made in the wilderness. That means that it was a wooden spear. Of course that idea that he had almost killed him. There are many more foolish decisions that Cole makes but these are the best