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Touching Spirit Bear
Chapters 1-5 Pick 3
Morgan Anderson
Touching Spirit Bear
2. What does Cole do and why does he do it?

What Cole does is he finds the gas in the supplies they left Cole, and puts it all over the cabin or shelter. Then Cole looks for matches and lights the cabin on fire. The reason why Cole does this is because he doesn’t want to play anymore games.

3. What point does Garvey make with the cake?

Garvey tells Cole to try the ingredients for making a cake alone. So of course Cole tries it to prove he’s strong and brave. Then Garvey makes Cole try the cake, so he does. Cole liked the cake but didn’t like the ingredients separate. Garvey was trying to say that being alone isn’t always the answer it’s talking to people and being with people that will get you to the right answer.

5. What does he see and how does he react?

The thing Cole sees is a white bear or maybe a spirit bear like Edwin said. Cole saw the bear across the bay just standing there. Cole started yelling at the bear I’m going to kill you!!! Cole through a rock at the bear but it just stared at him. He turned to get the knife from the ashes of the cabin. When Cole turned back around the bear was gone.

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