In the book Touching Spirit Bear, Cole does many things with major consequences. His anger mainly controls these things, but when Cole finds himself lying on the ground as good as dead, he realizes that he's not a good person, and he realizes what he has done. Here are some consequences and mistakes that Cole has made in the past to get to this point. In the first few chapters, Cole was ruthless. He always had a second chance at everything. He ended up robbing a store, thinking to just get away with it. He told everyone at school about his store robbery, and Peter snitched on him. This boy named Peter Driscal was a ninth grader Cole had picked on many times before just for the fun of it. This caused Cole to be furious. After school, Cole approached Peter. “you're a dead man”, Cole punched him with his bare fists one after the other, and when Peter tried to escape, Cole pounded his head on the sidewalk repeatedly. No one ever messed with Cole Matthews. But the consequence of this is he had to start circle justice to find out what they were going to do about Cole. …show more content…
Of course, Cole did not take this seriously, so he let his anger in control and burned down his only shelter with food, and everything he needed to supply him on the island. His wild laughter had mocked the world, and everyone he had ever known. He thought of every time his dad has beaten him, and every time his mom never cared. But now Cole was on his own, and he was in control, no one was stopping him. But after he felt a slight mood of loneliness, Cole started to feel emotional. The consequences of burning down everything were, sleeping in the rain on the cold ground, forcing himself to eat really bad food, and causing him not having any weapons or supplies to defend