Michael Clarke Duncan

In Touching Spirit Bear, I think Cole Matthews has character traits similar to those of a bear. One similar trait I noticed is how dangerous a bear and Cole can be. At first sight you would think that a bear is the most dangerous and violent creature to inhabit it a forest. It’s the same concept with Cole. People see him and are frightened because of his mean, gruff looking appearance. In Touching Spirit Bear, page 7, chapter 1, the narrator states, “Still, no one ratted on Cole Matthews without paying the price.” This relates to a bear because when someone first sees a bear, they challenge its skills and try to ward it off. That someone would then, most likely, end up mauled and severely injured by the bear. Another trait of a bear that…

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…

5 years later...Cole still lives on the island. He’s there because the island is the only place where he can contain his anger. Peter lives in Minnesota with his parents. Peter sometimes come to visit Cole like once a month. They became more like best friends over time. Till this day Cole stills carves totems. Being on the island really helps Cole with his anger. Cole now knows how to handle with his anger. Cole have many different carved totems. Cole now have a carving of the spirit bear. Ever…

Cole Matthews is a young boy who lives in Minneapolis. He struggles with anger issues, when he would get upset he would express how he felt in violent ways. One day Cole decided to steal from a department store and told people at his school. A boy named Peter told the police what Cole did,in result Cole got in trouble yet again. Cole was extremely mad at peter because he told and therefore Cole decided to beat up peter,causing injuries that were severe. Cole did not want to go to jail,he had…

Priscilla Juarez 1/08/2015 Ms.Jenson Touching Spirit Bear In the beginning of the book Cole Matthews a fifteen year old from Minneapolis, Minnesota arrives in Southeast Alaska in handcuffs. Cole agrees to stay on a neglected island in Alaska all alone for a year to avoid jail time in Minneapolis. Accompanied by Two Native Americans from the Tlingit tribe; one named Garvey, a parole officer, and the other named Edwin, a quiet elder who helped arranged Cole’s banishment. Edwin was the one who…

In the film The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, two women, Martha and Karen, run an all girls boarding school. One of the girls, Mary Tilford, becomes upset when she is punished for disobeying the rules and decides that she does not want to return to school. She recalls one of her classmates, Rosalie, telling her that Martha’s Aunt, Lily Mortar, had said that Martha’s actions towards Karen were “unnatural”. To avoid returning to school, Mary uses this information and forms a lie that she…

Bleak House is a story about Esther Summerson who lives with her aunt and is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Dedlock and Captain Hawdon. She spends the early years of her life at Ms. Barbary, her aunt’s house. After Ms. Barbary’s death she goes to live at Greenleaf at Ms. Donny’s with the help of her guardian Mr. Jarndyce. She spends six years at Greenleaf. After six years she goes to live at her guardian’s house accompanied with two other wards Miss Ada Clare and Richard Carstone. She…

The gothic novel, Jane Eyre, focuses on the life of a young, orphaned girl, who learns to balance her precarious station in 19th century England- a society whose culture is dictated by rigid social castes and protocols. She grows up in household of her Aunt, Mrs Reed, after the death of her parents, where she experiences neglect and estrangement until she moves to a charity school at the age of ten. The novel briefly narrates the story of her cousins, Georgiana and Eliza Reed, through brief…

In the book “This Boy’s Life: A Memoir”, by Tobias Wolf, the author often illustrates Jack’s coping mechanism to escape the unpleasant parts of his life. Using his coping mechanism of imagination made his life more endurable without the restraints that are placed upon him. In particular, his coping mechanism would involve him using his imagination to imagine where he wants to be in life and how much of a different boy he would be if he grew into a high class family that did not have any…

The Film ‘A Little Princess’ directed by Alfonso Cuaron in 1995 and tells a story of a young girl from India, who is sent to stay at a boarding school while her father goes to fight in war, as her mother is dead. On the other hand, the novel ‘The secret Garden’ was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1911 and tells a story of a spoilt ten year old girl who has to move from India to her uncle's house in England after her parents had died from a disease. Both film and novel displays the theme…