Ghost of Spirit Bear: Conflicts and Resolution

     My main character (Cole) faces some pretty big conflicts but here is one of them. When he and Peter are back at school for the first time since their fight in the first book, Cole and Peter are faced by 5 kids in a “posse” lead by a boy named Keith. They pick on Cole and Peter hoping to get on Cole’s nerves. They do succeed in getting on Coles nerves and he pushes one of the 5 kids down, which leads to trouble. Luckily the principal and government decide not to send Cole to jail for this small threat. Now he has learned his lesson and knows he has to be more careful when it comes to Keith and his “posse”. I think Cole attacks the conflicts he faces pretty well. It did take Cole a little while to figure out the best way to stop Keith from bullying him and Peter. He tried many things, such as calling the principal when they were about to get beat up, fighting with words, and even saying that even if Keith hit them once they would press charges against him. When they said that, that got Keith to be by himself, the other members of his “posse” backed away and said I can’t get in trouble my parents would “kill me”. But that didn’t stop Keith he started kicking and punching Cole and Peter over and over again. That night Cole pressed charges against Keith for assault. The next day Keith was skateboarding towards Cole getting ready to tackle him, when Cole stepped out of the way. Keith fell and hit his head on the sidewalk and Cole took care of Keith until the ambulance arrived to take Keith to the hospital. It took a lot of courage, but Cole visited him in the hospital and then dropped the charges once he got home. I think I would’ve done the same thing as Cole because it taken me time to figure out how to stop Keith.  But, like him, in the end I would’ve found a solution that worked. I don’t think I would’ve handled it much differently, but hopefully I would’ve figured out what to do faster. I think that how Cole handled the conflict is not the kind of person he was in the first book. But it is definitely the kind of person he is in the second book.