Touching Spirit Bear Character Analysis

This is about a boy named Cole Matthews. I would like to discuss who this boy is and how he is always in the shadows and doesn’t even see the light anymore. Cole is a beaten down boy who is ill-tempered and thrives on people fearing him. He feeds off of people’s misery, and doesn’t take any blame, probably because he figures nothing is his fault. “Serves him right,” Cole mumbled when they first told him of Peter’s condition.” (Pg.8) Touching Spirit Bear. Cole brutally beat Peter up and 4-6 people had to pry him off, then he spit on Peter. This book is about Cole, because it’s about giving hope to all the children or at least anyone, that even when you get in trouble their will always be someone there to help and support you, and Cole just happens to main character to prove this theory.
His mother is a drinker, who drinks to calm and ease her nerves and doesn’t speak up when the father brutally beats his son, whenever he gets drunk. “You don’t know what it is like being hit over and over until you are so numb you don’t feel anything.” (pg. 28) Touching Spirit Bear. It is Cole’s father that beats him. Other than his parents, who hardly pay attention to him, the story doesn’t mention any other close relatives, but I’m pretty sure everyone is secretly hoping that Garvey, Cole’s prison guard/mentor, takes him under his