Why Banishing Cole was a good idea.
I think bashing Cole was a good idea because,
1. Cole is going to be in isolation so he has no one to talk to this is good because he has time to think.
2. No one can be able to help him on the island so he will have to rely mainly on himself for surviving.
3. Since he will have time to think he will have time to relax a bit and “roll away his anger”
Those are 3 things on why banishing Cole was a good idea.
We have read further in Touching Spirit Bear and we have learned a lesson. Edwin said ” try to get rid of the left end of the stick.” ” Why is the left end of the stick still there?” We have been reading about how the left end of the stick cannot be broken. Edwin also said that the pond they were sitting in gave them a choice to be either happy or angry. We have been given the question What do you do when you can only see the left end of the stick?
I usually just relax and do something that takes my anger off of my mind. Relaxing and doing something else is how I take away my anger.
fIn the novel Touching Spirit Bear Edwin took Cole to a pond early in the morning and they spoke about anger and how you can’t get rid of it. Edwin took a stick he told Cole that the left end of the stick is his anger and the right end is happiness and he told Cole to break the left end off but the left end remained that’s because “anger is never forgotten and it can only be tamed” so when i can only see the left end of the stick i like to sleep,watch a funny video or read a book because those things calm me down the most.ff
I personally think Cole should be sent to jail! He smashed peter driskols skull into the side walk! Cole was also mean and threatening. Cole threatened peter, “your a dead man,” touching spirit bear page 7.Cole was taking it out on the spirit Bear, “A bear with half a brain would have turned tail and run. Instead this dumb animal had attacked.”, he thought. Page 69
Cole wanted to take it out on the baby sparrows.”if I where the mother I would leave them to fend for themselves”,he thought.”She didn’t ow them anything”.”Without his injuries he could have crawled up and and knocked the nest down”,” that what the stupid birds deserved”he thought. Page 75
-I think banishing Cole was a good idea, because when he saw the spirit bear he tried to kill it.
-And he spoke when he din’t have the white feather.
-He lied about trusting and joining the circle justice about healing.
-He also burned the sack on the island with all the supplies in it.
-He tired escaping the island but instead the waves pushed him back to the island , and that’s when he saw the spirit bear.
-Cole hit Peter hard, until Peter was seriously injured.
-Cole and Peter met at the hearing justice because Cole beat Peter.
-Cole did’t even try to be good, instead he keeps on trying to escape.
Banishment is better than a jail cell, and it doesn’t bring any good. letting Cole into nature and letting him be by himself is a better way of letting him learn. His dad and mom don’t really care about him so thats why he is acting like a not trained person. He has actually punched peter before.
And Garvey had always told him that:”what you do to the animals, you do to yourself,remember that”.Cole always thought that was crazy and he did’t get what Garvey meant.But maybe until he and the spirit bear had attacked, he might learn a lesson.