Author's Note: This essay is going to be about compare and contrast and I will be comparing the main character of Touching Spirit Bear and Football Hero and those characters are Ty and Cole.
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen is about Cole getting fight with everyone and Cole's parents are no better than Cole when Cole's dad get drunk he beats Cole later in the book Cole's father tries to get custody of Cole. Cole lets his anger out on a boy named peter Cole has to go to this detention center where Cole has a choice of going to jail or this Circle of Justice System. Cole must be Stranded on this island for a year because of what he did. The story Football Hero by Tim Green has a main character like Cole his name is Ty and his problem is family just like Cole Ty's parents die in a car crash and he has to go live with his uncle and aunt. His uncles has a cleaning business and he has go around buildings to wash their toilets and when Ty starts working in the business he also is going to tryout for football and he has a hard time trying to make friends. I think I would be Ty rather than Cole because Cole gets mauled by a big white spirit bear and Ty just gets made fun of and you can always fix that but you cant fix getting mauled by a bear.
The way these two characters are similar is that they both have family problems like Ty has to live with his Aunt and Uncle and Cole gets beaten by his dad. Ty and Cole have both physical and emotional pain. Cole's physical pain is when Cole gets attacked by the bear and he gets hurt very badly and Ty's physical pain is when the football team pushes him around and throws him in the mud. Ty's emotional pain is when he got bullied by his teammates and he gets called toilet boy and Cole's emotional pain was when he kept remembering the attack of the bear. Cole also had emotional pain by remembering his dad beating him and his parents leaving.
Cole fixed his problem by just calming down and asking more question to Garvey and Edwin how to get rid of the fear of being attacked again. Once Cole had spent one month on the island he started to help rebuild the cabin that Cole burnt down when Garvey and Edwin started talking some sense into Cole he started to be more relaxed and didn't really complain as much as he did when he first got on the island. Ty fixed his pain by showing everyone who he is by showing that he can play football and hes very fast Ty also went and told his aunt and uncle and the school principle that he was getting pushed around and getting called names.
My conclusion for this essay is that Ty and Cole do have some similarities and some differences, some differences are that Cole got more physical pain because he got hurt more and his right arm didn't work as good as it would before the attack. Ty's Differences are that he had at least some of his family to help him get through his parents death and the bullying.
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