How it feels

Author’s Note: I am writing this current piece to inform you on a quote from the novel Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen.

            How would you feel if one day someone ran up to you and started smashing your head against the sidewalk? Well that’s what happened to a confident, harmless boy named Peter Driscal. In the first spiritual meeting for Cole in his Circle Justice, they all talked about how Cole should be sent to jail, and then it was Peter’s turn.

“I think someone should smash Cole’s head against a sidewalk so he knows how it feels.” Said Peter. After Peter said that the whole meeting went dead quiet except for the little comments throughout the meeting. Even the Keeper’s voice sounded tense as she took the feather away from Peter.

I feel that this specific quote definitely affected the people especially Cole and just the whole story in general. If Peter wouldn’t have said that I think that Cole wouldn’t have ever felt bad and none of the isolation would’ve happened then he wouldn’t have met his spirit bear either because he met the bear when Peter said that Cole felt bad and didn’t want to feel bad so tried to go on with his bad boy life style.

That caused him to burn the shed and then get put on an island isolated from everyone else. Then that basically caused him to first see his spirit bear because there was nobody at the island so he thought he could escape, but the tide pushed him back to shore then that’s when he saw the bear. Later on he sees the bear again and starts messing with him, and the bear basically beats him to a pulp. The people who usually check up on him have to save his life because the find him on the ground bleeding to death.

I think Cole realizes then what Peter felt in a way but Cole felt it a lot more than Peter did obviously. But, he kind of got a taste for what he had gotten that day, and I think that changed his whole point of view. Now I think that he will change into a nice person and try to be nice to people and the community in general.