in the middle cole wants to leave the island he burns down his cabin be cause he is angry.”the shelter filled with supplies was a buyout something that his parents and everyone else to pretend they had helped him” (Mikaelsen,24).Cole felt like the shelter and the supplies were all then out of pity.” beside the stock of cardboard boxes sat a gallon of white gas for use in his lantern.Cole unscrewed the top . Recklessly, he splashed the gas over the supplies.”(Mikalsen,24).Cole want to show them that they don't need those pity to survive so he burned the cabin. “Cole tried to swallow the bitter taste that had come to his mouth.”(Mikalsen,24).Cole feels like he should have done it but also not have done that at all.Burning that cabin was