The main character of this book is Cole Matthews; Cole has horrible anger issues. His father drinks until he is abusive towards Cole and his mother drank until she did not care. Cole has been in trouble with the law most of his life. This book begins with Cole on a boat heading to Southeast Alaska, he is wearing steel handcuffs. The handcuffs are digging into his wrist.
If he needs to go to jail, obviously he is very rebellious and needs control. Cole has major anger issues though. For example, according to page 30, when he got mad at Garvey when they were
Cole was beaten by him throughout his childhood. This pain and anger gave him the personality and characteristic to inflict pain on other people. The two final themes have a very strong connection. In order to heal, mentally and physically, you have to learn to forgive and receive forgiveness. This was a lesson the reader and the main character, Cole, experience throughout the book.
“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.” (Marianne Williamson). Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, focuses on a boy named Cole who doesn’t care about anything and does whatever he wants. He ends up beating up a fellow student and goes to jail for it, but has a chance to get out by going to an island to “change” for the better. In fact he does end up changing for the better and overcomes some of his big challenges.
At the beginning of the novel, Cole Matthews is a vicious teenager who thinks he is superior to everyone, but is, in fact, hiding behind a shield of anger, the result of being brutally abused by his drunken father. Cole’s father, Mr. Matthews, drinks non stop until he becomes a monster, and then ruthlessly beats Cole up. When talking to Garvey, a proud, Tlingit indian, who is also his parole officer, Cole opens up about his father’s abuse saying, “‘You don’t know what it’s like being hit over and over until you’re so numb you don’t feel anything!” (Mikaelsen 28).
It was a day like any other day, but for the boy with fair hair, it would change his life forever. This is the beginning to the novel, by William Golding, that would surpass any other novel. And thus the book begins, marooning a group of English boys on an island, destroying their innocence, forever. This novel is like no other: Exploring the ideas of fear, war, and humanity’s evilness. So let’s begin.
Repercussions of a vicious fight at school leaves Lucy in a coma, Isaac the bully sent to another juvenile prison and sixteen-year-old orphaned David locked away at Manrazor the worst of the juvenile prisons. Young David can be a tough guy however, has a gentle heart that never desires to bully the younger kids like the others. Determined he sets out to find the gang leader in control and bring him down. But David fights his own inner demons that always manages to land him in “ Byron” the name for solitary. Where he reads the stories on the walls left behind by those before him and calms the beast within.
Cole learns to forgive his Dad in order to unload the anger he has directed towards him. The years of abuse have led Cole to see himself as a whale because he has no home and doesn't trust his family. This is why he was so angry and always lashed out at people. He wades through information that tells him his Dad doesn’t hate him, but he was beaten as a kid to. If he grew up learning that it was okay to do bad things to people then he still thinks that it is okay now.
Cole’s Personality changes drastically throughout the story. He goes from being a juvenile delinquent to being a person who cares about life and knows how to forgive. Three ways that he changed, are his physical ability, his personality, and his self esteem or self confidence. Things around him, like his home life, changed drastically as well. When they changed it influenced the already changing Cole to change even more.
He went to Sumner when he was caught up with working, and beat him hardheartedly with a stick over and over until the point when the stick really broke. The
For example, when Cole purposy bothered the Spirt Bear and later on ended up getting mauld by the animal. It is obvious that Cole’s decisions and actions against banishment lead him to fail the act. Cole’s consistent negative attitude made him dislike the idea of meaning humane. Since the beginning of the book, Cole has satisfied himself with anger. Cole believes that he can concor anything with his anger.
A party of English school boys are marooned on an uninhabited tropical island, an island which is forgotten by the civilized world after a plane crash (#2). There are no adults on the island to act as an authoritative figure for them. At first, the children demonstrate civilized manners; they try to maintain order in a place where there are no rules or sense of civility (#5). However, the longer they live free from the constraints of society, the more they develop a sense of savagery (#7). How could children between the ages of six and twelve end up displaying murderous and torturous actions?
Cole was a troubled kid, Who grew up with alcoholic parents who nearly beat him his Entire childhood and he beat up this kid named Peter and he goes to the circle of justice to decide what Cole's consequence is so they decide to bring Cole to this island where he gets attacked by a bear and suffers in the cold. I think Cole changes by having a deathly experience, having to be lonely and the fact that he had no power or control on the island that changed him into a different person. Cole's deathly experience changed him and his perspective on life he nearly almost died by getting mauled by a bear and starts to fade away and he's almost certain he is going to die and no one’s going to save him. This near death experience changed his life and changed him to be a better person and no longer has aggressive behavior coming from that island.
“You need to see that life is not always perfect. We will not always get what we want. And though it hurt a lot, what should have happened happened. Who should have left, left, and whatever's thrown you off course will always bring you to where it is you need to be.” Jim Hawkins is the main character he is 17 years old when he writes about his adventure.
If you were stranded on an island, do you think it would change you? Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about what happens to a group of boys aged 4-12 when they are stranded on an island. Throughout the novel, the island changes them into people they never thought they would become. Throughout his novel, Golding gives a bigger sense of importance to the island rather than the characters. He does this by having long prose and descriptive imagery when referring to the island, and insignificant wording when referring to the characters.
