Touching Spirit Bear Essay

Imagine living on a Alaskan island with nobody around to help you, or even know you exist, not only that but that your drunk parents could care less where you are. Well in this story that is exactly what happen to a kid named Cole. Touching Spirit Bear is an action-filled comedy that has a meaningful point.
A symbol that is in Touching Spirit Bear is, the cake ingredients. This may sound unimportant but this play a big role in this story, the reason this plays such a big role is because when Garvey handed Cole these cake ingredients Garvey to him to drink it all mixed together, and he did. Cole then said, “This is Gross!” Garvey then handed Cole a piece of cake that he baked with those ingredients, Garvey asked, “How does it taste?”, Cole said, “Pretty good.” As Garvey left Cole never knew what Garvey was trying to say, but what Garvey’s point was that everything that is apart might not work but if everything is put together it works.
One of the main characters Garvey is a Tlingit Indian that was a very good parent figure to Cole. Garvey was a parole officer that had two lazy eyes and was apparently built like a bulldog. Garvey was so nice to Cole that Garvey didn’t even spazz out when Cole supposedly killed Garvey’s cat, and then Garvey was willing to bring Cole to a Circle Justice for healing. Cole still was mean to him after he was offered a second chance to Garvey and Garvey still didn’t lose his temper. Even though Cole was mean after all that Garvey still was nice to him and watching over him. So Garvey is a pretty nice guy and a good parent figure.
This story relates to real life. Touching Spirit Bear relates to real life because Cole is a typical hardcore bully kind of guy, and there is most likely at least one of them in every school. There is also probably some person that is getting bullied in every school like Cole did to Peter. Eventually a bully will give in and actually come to their senses that bullying isn’t that good to do to people, and that’s exactly what happen to Cole when he didn’t want to fight Peter.
In this story Cole pretty much learned his lesson not to bully and be nice to kids that are more unconfident than him. The purpose of this story is not to bully kids because there will always be consequences.