I would like to introduce Cole Mathews. Cole Mathews is the main character in the book Touching Spirit Bear. Cole is a baby faced fifteen year old juvenile delinquent. In his family he is an only child. His mom and dad are alcoholics. His dad beats him and his mom ignores him. In school he has no friends simply because he has beat them all up. He likes to caws trouble and rob small businesses. He barely goes to school but when he dose he is always in trouble. He has always been beaten by his dad ever since the first thing he did wrong. When he goes to school all the kids talk behind his back and are scared of him. And if there not he makes them be scared of him.
Cole has a really weird personality. His personality is anger. When he’s sad he shows anger when he is happy he shows anger. He never thinks it’s his fault its always someone else’s. He does not really have anything he like. The only thing he likes is the people that fear him and if they don’t they fear him he beats them till they do. In the book it says he does not fear anything but truly I think that it is lying. I think he is afraid of his dad and himself. I the beginning of the book he thinks that everybody is wrong and he is the only right person. Close to the end he realizes that very one are not always wrong they can be right too.
Coles behaviour in the beginning of the book is him being really mean to everybody and because of this behaviour it got him sent to the island. Later on in the middle of the book he gets even more angry on the island. And him being on the island and being really anger made him make a stupid sedition. He decided to attack a spirit bear because it was not scared of him witch was bad idea because it got him all tarred up and almost died. Getting close to the end when he got on the island the second time he started to learn how to control his anger by soaking in a freezing cold pond every morning. Then after he would soak he would carry the ancestor rock up a hill. Then once the rock was at the top of the hill the rock would become his anger and he would roll it down the hill as if he was rolling away his anger. In the beginning he would always blame people for his problems . in the middle of the book he slowly finds that everything is not always someone’s fault. In the end he finds out that he has to forgive himself and he does that by dancing the anger dance witch showed him that he can’t blame everybody for his problems. In the very end of the book he fixes something that he really hurt and that was Peter.
The hole time in the book Cole had to overcome one thing and one thing only and that was his anger. But in the middle he realizes that he can never get rid of his anger he can only hide it and he does that by soaking in the pond and taking the rock up the hill and rolling it back down. When he finally hid his anger he was able to help Peter overcome his fear of Cole. [Peter is the boy who Cole beat up really bad and that is why he was sent to the island.] he helped peter by bringing him to the island and slowly like I mean really slowly proved to him that he has changed.