"Touching Spirit Bear" conflicts

In the book "touching spirit bear" there are many conflicts but the one that leads up to all other conflicts is the main characters parents. Coal the main character has parents that don't care about him and are abusive. How a child is raised really reflects on there stereo type, for example if your razed with parents who don't care about you, your more than likely not going to care either, or if your disciplined your probably going to be respectful. With Coals bad parents it makes him a bad kid, Coal has robbed places and beat up people and could have gone to jail. After robbing a place he bragged about it and a kid named Peter Driscal rats him out. Coal manipulates the cops into believing him he didn't, and as soon as coal gets his hands on Peter things get ugly. After that coal has two options, change way his life, or jail. Coal picks the circle of justice witch is suppose to help him change and leads him to a 1 year banishment where he eventually gets mulled by a bear. almost near death coal does change.