The book "touching spirit bear" is about a boy named coal Mathews where his anger issues get him in series trouble. Coal lets his anger take control of him and does bad things. Coal gets in trouble with the cops from time to time, but when someone snitches, they get stitches. A boy named peter rats him out and when coal gets his hands on him things get bad. Coal beats him senseless and Peter is left with brain injuries, coordination problems and speech problems from the beating. Coal is left with prison, or circle of justice. Coal picks the circle of justice, witch leads him to a island banishment. During a near death of experience coal changes, he decides he wants to live and changes. After his near death experience, the only thing that drives him through life is the desire to help peter.
after the beating, Peter has a lot of problems besides coordination and speech. Peter gets depress witch anyone would if they where in peters shoes, peters life was ruined, what kind of future could he have with coordination and speech problems. Every dream he had about his future is crushed. Peters emotions where more than likely mixed between anger and sad, and he even tries to committee suicide twice.
After the beating coal thought, what ever the kid asked for it. Coal is the kind of guy who thinks everything isn't his fault. When he beat up peter he thought it was peter's fault for telling the cops. But coal has a reason to be angry, his parents are the reason. Both his parents are alcoholics, where one beats him almost all the time, and the other doesn't care one bit. When coal joins the circle he tries to manipulate everyone, he thinks that the world is full of suckers and he knows just how to take advantage. His plane to manipulate fails and gets sent to a one year banishment on a island all by himself.
Coal's trip to the island doesn't go well, with no one to take his anger out, no one to take control of he doesn't know what to do, he burns his shelter, tries to escape, and tries to kill a bear. The bear mulled him and left him dyeing on the ground. Coal changes his emotions and feels sorry for what he did, and feels so sorry that when he gets back to the island for a second time, he thinks that peter should live there too.
When peter first arrived, he was scared badly. Memories of the pain and blood on the ground rushing through his brain. After trying to committee suicide his parents get desperate and try the idea.
When his parents leave he still didn't want anything to do with coal. Coal was forced by his adviser to live outside the cabin. When months pass, peter learns that coals idea wasn't to get revenge, but knowing that doesn't change peters opinion on coal.
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