Touching Spirit Bear

Author's Note: i really like Touching spirit bear and how Ben uses his figurative language in this book he did a good job and i think im going to score pretty good too.

Life Changing 

  You come home after school, you open your door and find your mom passed out on the floor with a bottle of beer in her hand, Your dad is on the couch watching TV smoking and looks angry, you try to back away but he hits you. In your room you cry to yourself thinking it will get better, yet you know in the back of your head it won’t. Everyday this happens and there is no escape. In this book it's about a boy named Cole who has a lot of problems, but they all revolve around his anger. His mom is an alcoholic , and his dad abuses Cole.  In my opinion, Ben Mikaelsen is a phenomenal writer when it comes to figurative language.

  One example of figurative language is personification, this makes the tone very upbeat and furious. The example of the personification is "Cole felt his smoldering anger ignite." (page 64) This kind of thing happens a lot in this book. Cole has these terrible anger problems that eventually gave him consequences. Like being sent off to a deserted Alaskan island. When he gets to this island he learns a lot of lessons and he changes his ways and changes completely.

  The second example of figurative language is a metaphor, the example is "Fear flashed in Garvey's eyes." Page 102. How this affects the tone is because it shows that Garvey just suddenly got frightened. like he just seen a ghost or something. Ben really knows how to use figurative language in this book and I think he did a fantastic job on putting it into this book so well.

  Furthermore I would like to say that how all this impacted the tone and the book is because the tone is anger and sadness. And later on in the story Cole finally changes his ways. And isn’t so angry anymore which helps him a lot. That affects the tone because the whole time he was this terrible kid now he all of a sudden just changes. Cole was also a sad kid and that change he stood up for himself and became a better person and wasn't mean anymore.

  In conclusion I would like to say that Ben Mikaelson did a great job with this story. And how he used figurative language in this book.  Ben made the book come alive and really interesting . He made the tone angry and sadness and he did a good job using that in the book. Like for example he used anger with Cole because Cole had anger problems throughout most of the book. This book is honestly one of my favorites and I really like Ben Mikaelson books.