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Themes Of Touching Spirit Bear

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There are many examples of theme in Touching Spirit Bear. One of the themes included in Touching Spirit Bear is acceptance. Throughout this book acceptance is shown throughout the book by characters taking responsibility and accepting the consequences for their actions. Other ways of acceptance include others accepting the personality and the behaviors of other characters. In the text acceptance of responsibility is shown when Cole accepted his consequences for robbing the store and gruesomely attacking Peter. At first Cole didn’t even care about the consequences of his actions. He thought that his parents were just going to grab a lawyer and get him to safety as soon as possible. As he realized that this wasn’t going to happen he faked …show more content…

He definitely shows this even in the far beginning of the story. At first Cole rejects their help and he even spits on Edwin to show that he didn’t accept their help and didn’t want their help at all. Along with this, Cole didn’t believe in their ways and he thought they were silly and stupid. However, throughout the course of the story Garvey and Edwin never even began to give up on Cole and slowly one by one he realized when he tried their methods and accepted their ways that they were right all along. He realized his Spirit Bear attack, his father’s jailing, and the near jail sentence all were leading to his realization that everyone was trying to help him. That Garvey and Edwin’s ways were helpful. As he starts using their ways he soon begins to feel enlightened and able to control his anger and to stop blaming others and accept responsibility. Along with this he learns how to be able to accept other people’s personalities and ways of doing things like Garvey and Edwin with their mysterious yet wise advice. All these previous events leading up to the acceptance of Garvey and Edwin’s advice showed that they were key to his acceptance but if he were to accept their ideas and ways in the first place there wouldn’t be any affect because he would still have the stubborn personality and just wanting to avoid jail. With the help of the spirit bear attack plus previous and later events Cole was able to accept Garvey and Edwin along with their

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