Summary of the chapters
Part 1
Chapter 1
Cole Matthews is a fifteen-year-old boy and has
been fighting and stealing for years. At school he has beaten up a boy called
Peter Driscal for this he will go to jail. But he gets a change to change. Will
he accept this chance?
Chapter 2
Cole is on an island where he has to stay for a
whole year as part of his banishment. He doesn´t like it, but Garvey, who has
trust in Cole, wants to help him if he agrees to help let him help and won´t
waste his time. Garvey gives Cole an at.óow this shows his friendship and that
he trusts Cole.
Chapter 3
Cole tells Garvey about his father and how he
beats him up when he is drunk. Garvey learns Cole a lesson about thing apart
are different that all of them together.
Chapter 4
Cole wants to get away from the island he goes
to the shoreline and sees another island. he is a good swimmer and thinks he
could get to the other island. He gets into the water and starts swimming.
While he is swimming he thinks back at the Healing Circle. At the circle Cole
meets Peter, his parents, their lawyer, Cole´s parents and his father´s lawyer.
They all introduce themselves and tell why they are here.
Chapter 5
Cole realizes that he doesn’t get any further and decides to go back to the
island. When he is on the land, he is tired and falls asleep. When he wakes, a
Spirit Bear watching him. Cole doesn´t like it and wants to kill the bear, he
searches for his knife. But when he has found his knife the bear is gone.
Chapter 6
Cole thinks back at the Healing Circle, when his
father told all sorts of lies. But Cole told the other people the truth about
his father. He also thinks back at the time Garvey came with the idea to put
Cole on an island for a year, to find himself.
Chapter 7
Cole sees the Spirit Bear again, and this time
it also disappears when Cole isn´t looking. Cole is at the shoreline when he
sees the bear standing. He wants to kill it, but why doesn´t it attack Cole or
runs away?
Chapter 8
When Cole is ready to attack the bear, the bear
attacks him first. Cole is beaten up by the bear and is left bleeding when the
bear is finished. Cole can't move and he thinks about why he chose to come to
this island.
Chapter 9
Cole still lays wounded on the ground, he falls
asleep and dreams. When he wakes there is a huge storm in which baby sparrows die
next to him. Cole doesn't feel strong anymore, he feels weak.
Chapter 10
While Cole lays wounded he thinks of the
sparrows in the nest. They have a life circle just like Cole. And then Cole
makes a decision, he wants to live, he doesn't want to die. But if he wants to
live, he has to find food, and soon!
Chapter 11
Cole needs food because food means energy and
energy means life. And Cole wants to live. Again the Spirit Bear comes to Cole
and this time Cole thinks it will kill him.
Chapter 12
The Spirit Bear doesn't attack Cole and walks
away. Seagulls come to him and try to lift him, Cole doesn't know what they are
trying to do. But then he hears voices and the next thing he knows, is that he
wakes and sees Edwin and Garvey. They are bringing him somewhere where they can
help him.
Chapter 13
Rosey is a nurse, the only nurse in Drake. She
takes care of Cole and Edwin and Garvey are helping her. Cole is going to a
hospital in Ketchikan. Edwin and Garvey bring Cole to a van and then Cole tells
them about the Spirit Bear and everything else. Cole decides to tell the truth,
only the truth no more lies.
Part 2
Chapter 14
Six months later Cole is doing better. He can
walk but he'll never be able to use his right-hand fully. Everything is going
better between his mother and him too. Cole has another meeting at the Healing
Circle and the Keeper is disappointed that he has broken the contract. But then
Edwin walks in. What will he got to say?
Chapter 15
No one wants to believe Cole has seen a Spirit
Bear or that he has changed except for Edwin, Garvey and Cole's mother. But
Edwin showed a demonstration together with Cole to show people can change in
two days if they had a near dead experience. And when Edwin and Garvey visit
Cole they tell him he is going back to the island.
Chapter 16
Cole is going to the island again but this time
he won't try to escape. Edwin and Garvey stay with Cole for a few days. Garvey
makes a meal of a hot dog for a celebration. Edwin tells Cole he has to
discover himself and celebrate being alive.
Chapter 17
Cole can't sleep at night he is too much thinking about the past and his
future. When he finally falls asleep, Edwin wakes him and says he has to go
with him. Edwin brings Cole to a pond and teaches him you can't get rid of the
left side of the stick, the anger.
Chapter 18
The night of the first day Edwin, Garvey and Cole dance the whale dance. Cole
tells them he feels like a whale, it always migrates and it doesn't have a home.
The next day Edwin wakes Cole for another swim and another lesson to control
anger.
Chapter 19
Cole found back his attitude for a while and Edwin and Garvey tell him he has
to change it, but he doesn't. That night they would dance the wolf dance, Edwin
and Garvey tell him they would take him back to Minneapolis. The next morning
Cole goes to the pond to take a swim like Edwin told him to do. And he brings
his ancestor rock up the hill. And there he realizes how far he had come, and
he doesn´t want to waste it. He wants to stay on the island.
Chapter 20
Cole is his new him again. He wants to stay on the island and get rid of his
anger. That night Edwin, Garvey and Cole danced the Spirit Bear dance because
that day Cole had seen the Spirit Bear. After that day was the last day Edwin
and Garvey would be with Cole. They joined him when he went to the pond and the
ancestors. After that they soon left and Edwin would check on him in a few
days.
Chapter 21
Cole is alone on the island and he feels lonely. Every morning he goes for a
soak and brings the ancestor rock up the hill. But one morning he stays in bed
and that same day he decides to carve a totem pole. He discovers that the soak
and going up that hill with the ancestor helped to don´t get angry. So that was
the first and last day he stayed in bed.
Chapter 22
Cole is busy carving the totem pole. He finished carving the eagle and wants to
carve a wolf and a beaver. He still can´t figure out why the Spirit Bear hasn't
showed himself. Cole wants to dance the dance of anger but he can only dance
the dance of anger when he is ready. Edwin visited Cole and Cole asked him why
he still hasn´t seen the Spirit bear. Edwin tells him he has to be invisible.
But how? And then Cole knows how to be invisible.
Chapter 23
Cole found out how to be invisible, he had to clean his mind. He sat down on
the hill and made himself invisible in the hope he would see the Spirit Bear.
And he did feel the bear was there. That day he felt he was ready for the dance
of anger. And he danced the dance of anger. He felt sorry for what he did to
Peter and he forgave someone, but who?
Chapter 24
It was winter and it was too cold and freezing to go to the pond to soak and
bring the ancestor rock up the hill. Cole spent most of his time making
schoolwork, reading and thinking about his parents and Peter. One day Edwin
visits Cole and tells him Peter tried to commit suicide, twice. Cole knows how
to help him but will Peter agree to let Cole help him?
Chapter 25
Every day Cole thinks of Peter. He is wondering if he will come or if his
parents will let him come. But then one early morning after he had gone to the
pond he heard the engines of the boat Edwin always comes with but he also hears
a second boat coming. And on that boat Peter, Peter´s parents and Garvey are
on. Edwin tells Cole he has to tell what he experienced on this island,
everything. And his last words of the story are about the dance of anger, that
Cole only can heal if he helps to heal Peter. But Peter doesn´t want Coles
help. What will Cole do?
Chapter 26
The next day Peters parents leave together with Edwin. That leaves Cole
together with Peter and Garvey. Cole really tries to get closer to Peter but
Peter doesn´t want to get closer to Cole. But weeks of patient help, Peter
starts talking to Cole more and even is okay that Cole can sleep in the cabin.
Chapter 27
After Peter invited Cole to sleep in the cabin again, Peter still doesn´t like
him. Cole thought Peter might like to carve on his own totem pole as well. And
got him one. They carved a mouse because Peter saw a mouse and they had danced
the mouse dance. Peter is a really good carver and Cole asked him if he wanted
to learn him how to carve like that.
Chapter 28
Cole and Peter are going soaking in the pond without Garvey. Cole was
surprised, and scared. At the pond Peter started beating Cole but Cole didn´t
hit or kick back he had learned that on the island. Peter kept hitting and
kicking but then he fell to his kneed and cried next to Cole on the ground.
They spoke to each other and they saw the Spirit Bear, Peter couldn´t believe
it. They went back to the camp and together they carved a circle on the empty
place on Cole´s totem. It was they sign of Coles dance of anger. Cole gave the
at.oow he got from Garvey to Peter to show he trusted him and he said : ´´I
hope someday you'll trust me.´´
