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TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR TRASHKETBALL 1 4 7 2 5 8 3 6 9 10 BONUS

Question #1 This person regularly abuses his son. He is powerful. He doesn’t care about birthdays Cole’s father

Question #2 This person is fragile. We have learned that this person has a hard time being brave. Cole’s mother

Question #3 This person is a parole officer with a tough past. Garvey

Question #4 A nurse with a humorous side Rosey

Question #5 The Tlingit Elder who gives the main character the at. toow Edwin

Question #6 The character with a past of being abused and who deals with personal problems by using violence Cole Matthews

Question #7 This character was beaten into a state of near death and now suffers from brain damage Peter Driscal

Question #8 Describe Cole’s character. How has he has changed from the beginning to the end of Part one? Provide specific evidence! Possible answer: Cole’s character was defiant, angry, abused, and selfish at the start of the novel. This was shown when he beat up a student, Peter Driscal, and made him suffer immensely for “snitching” on him after he committed a crime. He thought attending Circle Justice would be an easy way out of jail time, but he learned, through the attack of the Spirit Bear on the island through his time in isolation, that he has been ruining his own life for so many years. He learned to rely on himself and, most importantly, he learned that lying will get him nowhere. At the end of part one, he decides that believing in himself is better than others believing in him when he chooses not to share the hair of the Spirit Bear with Garvey.

Question #9 What is Garvey’s personal motivation for helping Cole? Possible answer: Garvey grew up a young delinquent in the justice system. He told Cole he spent 5 years in detention centers and it was time he would always regret losing. He states that he helps kids like Cole reform because it helps him heal and it helps his anger lessen, though he claims it never completely goes away.

Question #10 Describe the relationship between Cole and his parents. Possible answer: Cole and his mother and father do not get along. We learn in the novel that his father is abusive and his mother is too scared to protect her son. He does not know what it is to be loved and feel safe, so it makes him violent and angry. His father knows that Cole is troubled, but instead of trying to help him get better, his father pays whatever money he must pay in order to get Cole good lawyers to keep him out of jail. His father and mother also do not get along, which is shown in one of Cole’s flashbacks during a Circle Justice meeting in which Cole’s mother tries to get his father to stop hitting him with a belt, and he says he will hit her too if she interferes. He does not trust his parents at all.

BONUS What do the baby birds on the island represent? Explain their relevance to Cole’s own life.