Touching Spirt Bear

Authors Note: This is a 5 paragraph essay on conflict showing 2 resolutions


What would you do if you got attacked by a white spirit bear? This is what happens in the book Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen. Cole Matthews was a big bully and stole from other people. All of his bad choices got Cole in huge trouble during his life. Cole had to decide if he wanted to go to jail or go to the Native American circle of justice. He picks the Native American circle of justice and now has to go to an Alaskan island for one year by himself to fix his problems. If anyone got attacked by a white spirit bear they would be frightened and scared.

To begin with one major conflict in the story Touching Spirit Bear, is that Cole Matthews thinks everyone and everything is afraid of him. When Cole goes to the Alaskan island for one year he spots this white spirit bear and wants to kill it for food. He believes that the bear is afraid of him when he is on his way toward the bear. He is about to kill the bear and the bear attacks him breaking majority of his bones and ripping him apart.

On the other hand this story is a great person vs. nature book because it shows Cole that he shouldn’t bully in his life. Cole got attacked by a white spirit bear because he was trying to kill the bear to food. He wanted food because he needed food to survive. Cole could have prevented this if he had never tried to attack the white sprit bear for food. He could have gone fishing or tried to kill something else to get food.

However he got attacked by the bear he could have prevented this if he didn’t bully others. He got on this island because Peter told on him for doing something wrong. We all hate when people tattle on others and you want to hurt them but if Cole didn’t attack peter he would have had never had to go to the Alaskan island. And if peter wouldn’t have told on him peter would have not be hurt and Cole would for to jail for stealing from the hardware store.

To sum up my case how would you do if you got attacked by a white spirit bear? Cole had gotten in huge trouble over his life and got attacked by a bear. He could have prevented from being attacked by the white sprit bear by fishing instead of trying to kill the white spirit bear. Also he could have stopped bulling others and wouldn’t even go to the island. The majority of the people would try to escape if they got attacked by a bear.