SYMBOLISM ON TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR

FIRE = ANGER

• "He stares back into the racialist red hot flames and his anger burned"(26)
• Flames are bigger and anger is larger

CAKE INGREDIENTS = PARTS OF COLES LIFE

• Lonely ness bullies,arguing,arrested beaten ignored
• These were the ingredients of the cake
• "This wild laughter mocked the world and everyone he had known. It mocked the lonely ness. He laughed at all the times he had been beaten....these were the ingredients in his cake and it sucked" (30).

WATER

• The water is healing because the current pushed Cole back to the island to heal when he tried to swim off the island

FEATHER