Crispin By Avi: Summary

I believe that Touching Spirit Bear is Fascinating book to read and it describes what’s happening at the moment and it’s also Action packed in the chapter’s. The book is mostly about a boy named Cole that goes to an island and see’s a big white bear. Some important parts is that he destroys his cabin then he tries to kill the bear he saw. Although Cole attacked the bear, he didn’t get far with it.

Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi, tells the story of a 13 year old serf boy named Crispin who becomes an orphan after his mother dies and must leave his town or will be hunted and killed as a wolfs head. While on his odyssey to escape his hunter, John Aycliffe, he meets a juggler with contrasting opinions named Bear who becomes Crispin’s master. Bear protects him and teaches him a new life, how to juggle and play the flute, and new opinions on government aspects. Crispin transforms mentally and physically throughout the story, showing the reader what he overcame and realized. Crispin is a dynamic character because throughout the story he seeks his true identity, his opinions on the feudal system develop, and he starts the story anxious, unconfident,

General Zaroff pretends to be a civilized person just living on a deserted island, but in reality, he is a cold-blooded murder. General Zaroff tricks Rainsford into a false sense of security only to throw him into the jungle and force him to participate in his disgusting game of hunting humans for amusement. Rainsford has to stay alive for three days in order to live, and he has to fight for his life during the hunt. In the end Rainsford is able to win, and by doing so gains knowledge that changes him. Rainsford is a dynamic character because he changes from being apathetic towards hunting animals, to empathetic towards hunting animals.

After being viciously mauled by a grizzly bear, Glass was expected to die from his wounds. His trapping party decides to leave two volunteers- John Fritzgerald and Jim Bridger- to stay behind with Glass until he dies. Fearing an attack from the Arikara tribe, Fritzgerald decided to steal Glass’s gun and knife and flee with Bridger instead. What the two men didn’t realize was that Glass is not dead yet.

Justice makes him try to commit a huge crime which causes zits to travel into new bodies. He experiences the feeling of having a father, which he never had, he experienced betrayal, revenge while traveling in these different people. Through experiencing all the second chances, Zits is able to

buck and white fang both become free buck becomes the leader of a wild wolf pack and the legendary Ghost dog killing humans to protect himself and his pack. white fang is set free by jack conroy but gladly returns to jack conroy to be his domesticated companion when jack decides not to go to san francisco but instead return to the burned out cabin in conclusion this proves that buck and white fang are alike in similar wayssince both dogs get their best quality from their genders this is another similarity

She never wants to leave Bonzo alone she always has to have Bonzo this shows that this is her rabbit and no one else 's. On page 14 Dad got angry when olive called him the evil wolf Maurgrim from the lion, the witch and the wardrobe so he put Bonzo away for a week. He was using his bad wolf like he usually does and hunts for Bonzo. This is where Dad is a wolf and is hunting for Olive because Olive was being mean to him so he fights her.

Therefore, the bear represents the aggressiveness of humans and animals and how they kill others, while the tree represents life and safety. This creation myth also supports and validates social customs and values. For example, the bear (boy) signifies the dominance and violence of men. One example of the violence of the bear is, “the bear came to kill them…it scored the bark

Inspired by the war furor, approximately sixteen more young men rode off to join Shore Crossing in raiding the settlements. A total of eighteen hostile white settlers trespassing and living along the Salmon River were

Not long after, some hunters have spotted the toddler with the bear, taking him away from the bear and raising him in the court of King Lycaon. The child, like the people that have taken care of him, became a hunter. One day, out hunting, Arcus has spotted his mom, a wild beast. He certainly did not know that the bear in front of him was his mother, so he raised his spear to skewer the bear, then suddenly Zeus had interrupted their meeting.

When Crispin finds a living person, he got the urge to go up to him. He is forced to promise to stay with this new man, Bear, and that was his first, with many to follow, discovery that he madekes. In order for Bear to keep Crispin in a servile way, he made Crispin swear “on the sacred name of Jesus” (chp. 18 pg 81). Also, when Bear discovers that Crispin has a cross made of lead, Bear demands to see it, and he reads the writing on the side, refusing to tell Crispin what it said.

Meeting Bear helps Crispin transition into finding his new identity because he is telling Crispin to treat him more as his equal than his elder. For example on page 94 it says, “‘And don’t call me sir, he snarled.’ ‘Why?’ ‘It’s servile’ ‘But you’re my master’ His answer was a growl.”

Crispin: the Cross of Lead Saint Giles is not only the patron saint of beggars and cripples, he’s also the patron saint of Crispin. Saint Giles was a simples saint, a protector, and is a very appropriate saint for Crispin to look up to. To give some background knowledge, Saint Giles was a simple man. He lived his life in solitude because he learned that his blood was of nobility, and he did not want to be noble.

"The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the rights of every individual to claim the protection of the law, whenever he receives an injury,” said Chief Justice John Marshall. The laws during this time did not protect Crispin. Some would agree that Crispin should have killed John Aycliffe. and some would disagree. Crispin should have killed John for three reasons, because young Crispin was in danger, cruel John was trying to attack him, and Crispin could save his friend Bear.

Relationships are strange. As we all know, everyone has a relationship with at least someone. Usually, people change in the process of the relationship, as they start to adapt to the real features of it. However, people can have different types of changes. We can have a negative or positive impact on the person we have a relationship with.