Character

            I am currently reading the book Touching Spirit Bear By Ben Mikaelsen. I am doing character as my speech topic. For my character I am doing a boy named Peter.

Peter was one of the people who weren’t liked by very many others. There wasn’t that much about his beliefs and values, but you can see his attitude through the story. He was brutally beat by the main character Cole getting his head smashed against the side walk a number of times. Through the story Cole has spiritual meetings with the community including Peter, his family, and his lawyer. As he is talking you can almost hear how he is still afraid of what Cole might do next and just the community in general.

I feel that Peter has a great impact on Cole and a lot of other people in the story. At first when Cole beat Peter he didn’t feel bad at all. But as Peter was talking at the meeting he finally started realizing what he had done to the boy. Slowly Cole starts to feel sad and bad, but he doesn’t want to feel that way so he goes on with his bad boy life. Now, doing so made him find his spirit bear.