Turning Point Of Touching Spirit Bear

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The turning point of Touching Spirit Bear (Ben Mikaelsen) is when Cole gets attacked by the spirit bear and almost dies from it. The result from the mauling makes Cole appreciate that life is precious and that anger and violence won't solve everything.

“The mauling didn’t make sense. In the past, everything had always been afraid of him. Why wasn’t the bear scared?”

This quote from the attack shows that for the first time in his life, Cole was defeated and defied by something. This greatly affects Cole in that the bear leaves him in a situation where he has no power over anything that might happen to him, and his sense of pride is lost. The spirit bear does essentially to what Cole did to Peter. It beat him up and left him with