Author's Note: This story is about how a character can change over time and how the things around him or her can effect how they change.
Character Before Change:
In the book Touching Spirit Bear there is this boy named
Cole. He is very violent, he thinks that everybody should be scared of him, he even said “ why isn’t that bear scared of me? Everybody should be
scared of me”. But it’s not all his
fault he is like this in the beginning of the story. As a child his dad would
get drunk and beat him with a belt and to add on top of that his mom wouldn’t
do anything to stop Cole’s dad.
I know that that is horrible and it shouldn’t have happened
but Cole shouldn’t have took it out on other thing or other people. For example
one night Cole broke into a hardware store and trashed the place. The next day
he was bragging about it and this boy Peter ratted him out the next day.
Therefore the beat peter up and sent him to the hospital and to rehab and he
had preeminent speech problems.
Cole really reminds me as a boy from our school witch his
name will not be machined but as a child he was mistreated and things but then
he got adopted and he had this very nice family and he got a lot of what he
wanted be he was still just very rotten.
Changing:
Cole can be a very rotten person but everybody can change
and in the turning part in Touching Sprit Bear that’s exactly what Cole dose in
every way possible. The changing starts after Cole gets mauled by the sprit
bear. So after he gets mauled he is just laying there in pain and all of a
sudden he hears cheeping coming from the tree and he looks up and he sees to
baby sparrows. Then he sees their mom bring them back a worm, and he asks
himself. Why should their mom bring them food? They don’t do anything for her.
And all of a sudden the light bulb turns on and he answered he own question by
say “because she cares” and that one thought sparks a whole wild fire of
kindness.
He realizes that he need
to live to be able to help. After eating a few worms and a little bit of grass
he takes a break and just kind of lays there after a few minutes of laying
there he passes out from the loss of blood. When he wakes up he is on the a
boat headed toward land. He gets sent to the hospital and he recovers somewhat.
After getting sent back out to the island Cole invites peter, he declines it the
first few times but eventually comes. When peter fist comes to the island peter
is very stubborn, he doesn’t want to do much and just wants to stay inside.
After a few days pass Cole finally gets peter to try some
different things with him, like going to the pond and rolling the ancestor rock
down the hill and dancing around the fire. Peter finally taps into the inner
body and soul and figures out what the big picture is and why he is living and
after the whole island deal he changes along with Cole both mentally and
physically.
This reminds me of football players when they get hurt the a broken leg or a torn hamstring. When they get hurt people start to question if they can make a comeback or if they will always have a lingering pain. Now this doesn’t settle well with the players if they ever get hurt they want to come back better than ever and make a good impression on the critics and I believe that is what Cole has done.
