Authors Note: This is a speech I prepared to explain the importance of the setting from the book "Touching Spirit Bear".
To me this book is all about location, not directly but it is the biggest aspect of the book “Touching Spirit Bear”. When Cole beats the heck out of the other kid and is sentenced to a year in prison or a year on an isolated island with a wild spirit bear you feel how the book is going to move forward. If Cole would have chosen prison and he would he would have never learned the lessons he learns on the island and he would still have the mindset the he’s right all the time and anybody who doesn’t think so shall be beaten to a pulp.
On the island setting he sees a spirit bear and want the bear to afraid of him like other people. He throws rocks at the bear. The bear came back and beat him to a pulp. Cole starts to realize that the bear is more powerful than him and the bear has dominance and he must listen. This gets Cole thinking about how he could be wrong in his home life and that other people have the same feelings and should be respected This would have never happened if the book had a different setting.
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