Change

Authors Note: this essay is about change in your life. Look for good text to world connections.

  In the book Touching Spirit Bear the author Ben Mikaelsen shows how different characters change in different ways. Without change for the better in one’s life, the life we may live may not really be worth  living.

Cole is a very rotten person and doesn’t care about anything. The only thing he cares about is himself. He wants everybody to be afraid of him. In the beginning of the book there is not a lot of change. I connected to school life when I read this. In the beginning of school you think you know everything and you don’t want to take any input from teachers but later on in the year you figure out that you need to take input otherwise the 

year won’t go so great.

After Cole went to the justice circle he woke up a little bit. He realized he didn’t want the jail life and he would do anything to not go to jail. The justice circle made a conclusion to send him to an island and that’s when his feelings changed about people. He said to himself “All of this justice circle stuff is a bunch and bull crap. All of these people just want me out of their town. Nobody wants to help.” At times I feel that way too. It’s very disheartening.

When the light bulb turns on for Cole it is when he is on the island after the spirit bear mauls him. All he want to do is live. While laying there, he hears chirping in the trees.  He looks up and sees baby sparrows and it’s mom feeding them. He thought in his head why should those baby sparrows live? They aren’t doing anything for their mom. I wasn’t sure why Ben Mikaelsen put that whole seen in the book but then it hit me. Like in real life the Moms and Dads are suppose to help their children because their children can’t help themselves. When I thought about this I made another connection to school. Teachers are suppose to help you. You don’t have to do anything for them they are just there to help you.

Without change in a book it’s not going to be a good book. Without change in your life it’s not going to be a good life. Ben Mikaelsen Does a wonderful job at incorporating change throughout his book.