How did Cole change throughout the book?

In the beginning of the book, Cole is angry with everyone. He utilizes his anger in the form of aggression, he abuses people, animals, nature, and whatever else he feels gets in his way. Over the course of the novel, Cole finds out the truth about his anger, where it comes from, how to approach and control it. He learns trust through the people who help him, and he learns that he is NOT invincible. By the end of the story, we meet an entirely new boy. He can empathize and sympathize with the feelings of others, he learns to forgive, and in turn, he can feel remorse and desire forgiveness for his own actions.

Source(s): Touching Spirit Bear

Cole is angry to everybody at the beggining, at the end Cole died because Garvey and Edwin beats him up.

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Cole Mattews is the main character in Ben Michealson’s book touching spirit bear. He’s a character of aggression and blame. He’s angry at the world and takes it out on a fellow student, Cole punishes Peter Driscal for ratting him out and finds himself in trouble, can Cole learn to control his anger and start to change?Although most people had given up on him, Garvey and Edwin believed that Cole could change for the better. Even with their help it was difficult for him to do better, he kept blaming other people. After he attacked Peter, Cole had been sent to an island in Alaska to help him realize the mistakes he’s made. While he’s on the island, he gets mauled by a bear, this albino spirit bear helped Cole change. When Garvey rescued Cole no one believed that the bear that attacked him was a white spirit bear, but Cole had proof, he had a clump of white spirit hair from the bear that attacked him. On page 112 he decides to throw the clump of hair into the ocean, this proves that instead of proving that he wasn’t lying he decides that he doesn’t need them to believe him as long as he knows he’s right.