Title: Touching Spirit Bear Author: Ben Mikaelsen Date/Year Published:1/9/1 Genre:realistic

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Title Touching Spirit BearAuthor Ben
MikaelsenDate/Year Published1/9/1Genrerealisti
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• Name Tiani MarshallClass Period7th period

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Setting

• Well part of it takes place in drake (a village
  Alaska) and the rest if it takes place in
  Minneapolis. It was a very cold place and a bad
  place for bad children. It was in the 1900s.

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Characters

• Cole doesnt have a care in the world about
  anybody and is ungrateful
• Peter- is a person who has gotten jumped by Cole
  and after that his personality changed.
• Parents of Cole-they are people who raised him
  wrong and they would beat.
• Garvey- is Coles parole officer.

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Plot Conflict

• Cole has hurt peter, and he needs to either go to
  Juivie or an Alaskan Island. When he gets mauled
  by the spirit bear, the problem is that he has
  to get a second chance on the island, and that he
  needs peter acceptance of his apology.

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Plot Resolution

• When peter driscall is beating him in the lake
  and he doesnt respond in violence because its
  the moment where the inner change has shown.

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Your Opinion

• I thought that the book was awesome and had a lot
  of meaning to it I loved it.

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About the Author

• Hes now traveling to schools to look for young
  writers
• He has children.
• He writes more books
• He has a family
• He stays focus on his job

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5 Test Questions

• Why do you think that peter beat up Cole?
• How would the story be told from peters point of
  view?
• How would the story be told from peters parents?
• How would the story be told from Coles parents?
• How would you react begin in peters situation.

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Summary

• Everything in life is a circle. Fifteen-year-old
  Cole get beaten by his father, just as Coles
  father was beaten by his father and now Cole
  himself is turning violent in a fit of rage. He
  pummels his classmate peter so badly that the
  doctors question whether he will ever be the same
  again. Instead of feeling remorse and fearing the
  consequences of his actions, Cole blames everyone
  around him for the

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End of summary

• Incident- his parents for begin alcoholics who
  dont care about him, and peter for tattling on
  him in the first place.