Authors Note: this piece is about a quote that Edwin said to Cole. This piece was mad to break down the quote and explain it.
Have you ever thought about the fact that what you do to others living things you do to yourself? Edwin in the book “Touching Spirit Bear” by Ben Mikaelsen tries to tell Cole this as one of the keys to surviving but Cole doesn’t follow it at least not at first.
This quote pretty much means what it sounds like which is that what you do to nature also leaves an impact on you. This is a great saying especially in this book because the island he is on has a very spiritual animal called the spirit bear The spirit bear in a way mocks him to so what he did to the bear or at least tried to he got it back but worse because the bear is almost six times as heavy. Another reason that this quote is important in the story is because he is exposed to the environment twenty four seven due to the fact that he burned down his only shelter along with all of his essentials like food.
Another reason this quote is important is because in ways we have a special link to the environment we live off of it and it lives off of us so when we aren’t doing that it could almost turn against us like the fact that the spirit bear mauls Cole. But once Cole goes back out there he had learned a lot more about life and once he respected it the bear was gentle to him. This kind of shows the respect that certain things need.
If Cole did take this quote seriously he also probably would have changed faster. Also he wouldn’t have almost died from the bear attacking him. But with that bear attackaing him he is pretty much changed for good if he wasn’t attacked he probably wouldn’t have changed much and would have hated both of his parents.
Although this quote is wise Cole chooses not to follow it right away which doesn’t really work out for him but he eventually learns to accept his problems and overcome them.
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