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The Struggle In Cole Matthews's Touching Spirit Bear
Touching Spirit Bear, a book about a young teenage boy, Cole Matthews, is a lively story penned by Ben Mikaelsen. This is the story of a young troubled teen who finds himself in major trouble after physically damaging another boy, Peter Driscal. Cole finds himself getting banished to an island by himself for a year. He does not apprehend the extremity of this situation because he always was in power, and was feared in any given environment. Cole only spent a slight amount of time on the island though, a few days. This may have failed the attempt of the elders and village peoples to change his perspective of life. Even though cole now understands emotions and wrong doings, he does not fully understand the whole purpose of this trip. There

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