Garvey’s purpose in Touching Spirit Bear

Authors Note: This Is about Garvey’s point in the story Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen.

In Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen is Garvey a good character for this story? What kind of affects does he have on Cole Matthews? Garvey’s purpose in the story is to help Cole through his recent crime. But does his help just make Cole's anger worse?

Garvey in Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen is a parole officer for Cole Matthews. Now when Cole smashes Peter Driscal’s face in to the side of a side walk, Garvey gave Cole the choice of risking the chance of going to jail or go to Circle Justice. When Cole was given the choice, he took the Circle Justus because he did not want to go to jail. Garvey keeps trying to help out Cole but he keeps blaming the world for everything that happens to him.

Garvey's purpose is to be there for Cole, to be someone who will steer him in the right direction. Garvey tried to show Cole that everything that happens to him is not because of everyone ells by having him eat all the ingredients of a cake then asked him how the ingredients tasted. Cole said that they tasted bad and nasty. Then he had given him a slice of cake and asked how that tasted. Then Cole said that the cake tasted grate and Garvey said that you can’t just keep blaming people for what happens to you. Garvey wanted Cole to see how every small thing matters.

Another example is when Garvey had went to Cole and suggested that he should try Circle Justice so he would not go to jail. He had brought that to Cole because he cares for Cole and Cole reminded Garvey of him self when he was his age.

Every time Garvey sees to Cole he tries to help him get him through what he is going through but Cole keeps refusing to cooperate with Garvey. However by the end of the book Cole feels that Garvey is more of a friend than he is a parole officer. Garvey made Cole face his anger so that he could overcome what gets him so angered. Now Cole is trying to be nicer to people so he doesn't end up were he was.

Cole's Anger

Rage controlled Cole’s hand as he drew back, paused for a split second, and then flipped the lighted match in to the shelter. This sentence is important because it shows how angered coal is. And it also shows how he really feels about the cecal justice.

Touching Spirit Bear Setting

Authors Note: this is about the setting of Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

So far in Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen the main character Cole Matthews is put on an uninhabited island in Alaska. He was put there when he decided to join circle Justice Instead of being put in to jail. While on the island there was a cabin that was built for him to live in and it had all the supplies that he needed to survive. Then After a few hours on the island he was still angry about being there so he ran in to the cabin and covered everything with coarsen and found the matches and burned the cabin down with all the supplies that he needed to survive. Now while the cabin was burning he thought about trying to swim to the nearest island and island hop until he gets to the main land so he could escape and live a normal life.