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Trust is the main part of the story is 100% trust. I think it's trust because when the spirit bear came up to him early in the book, Cole felt mesmerized by the bear and he felt trust inside him. The same thing happened with Peter and Cole, Peter had to trust Cole to believe him.

-Harvey

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I think that belief is a great theme to describe this book because Garvey and Edwin believed in Cole just like Cole believes in Peter. And this helped the character change happen because some people had belief that he could change.

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Cole has changed a lot throughout the book but Cole has always been angry and hurt people like peter in the beginning of the book. In the last few chapters Cole has wanted to change everything back to normal especially Peters life.

-Evan

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Although after what Cole did to Peter, Peter still did try to forgive him for everything. And Cole didn't give up on Peter either and kept doing things for him and overall being much better then he was before.

-Ben

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in the begining of the book Cole and peter didn't like each other and Cole didn't like Edwin and Garvey but later on in the book Cole and Peter and Garvey and Edwin all became better friends with each other-Susan:D

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I think the biggest theme in Touching Spirit Bear is forgiveness. I think this because there were so many people that had to forgive Cole what what he had done. Cole also had to forgive himself for what he had done. That is why I think forgiveness is the biggest theme in Touching Spirit Bear.
Lisa

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I think the theme is forgiveness because there is a sentence in the text where it says, "Being angry is giving someone else control of my feelings so they own me. Forgiving gives me control again." This shows that when Cole realized that forgiving is how to regain self control.

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-Kendall
I believe that the theme of TSB is change because the book displays how Cole has changed after being on Circle Justice and getting mauled. It shows how Cole learned how to control his anger and not fight anyone anymore.

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Cole has changed throughout the book. At the beginning he was this very angry kid that was rude, manipulative, and selfish. But throughout the book Garvey and Edwin taught lessons to Cole to lead to a change in Cole.
-Mateo

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I think that the theme would be change because Cole used to be angry a lot, but now he's trying to trust Peter, when peter was hurting Cole he didn't fight back.

-Eunice

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I think the theme is forgiveness because throughout the entirety of the story, they had talked about how to forgive each other - Doonovan

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Forgiveness is a big part of the book, because both Cole and Peter learned to forgive others and themselves.

Anna D

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theme-self discovery

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I chose forgiveness because everything in the book led up to Peter coming to the island and then Cole and Peter forgave each other.

- Andrew :)

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I think is an important theme because Cole had to trust people  so he can heal. Without him trusting spirit bear he would have never have changed.

-Dominic

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Cole has learned to trust people and give trust throughout the book.He was given trust with the beaver and lost it well trying to touch the beaver. That's one of the experiences where Cole has given trust or was given trust.
-Jillian

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peter had to forgive cole for beating him up from a traumatic experience

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naomi