Touching Spirit Bear Character Analysis

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Imagine living a normal life and then BAM!... everything changes. This is life for Hannah and Cole. Hannah and Cole both have hard times in their lives. Hannah struggles through the holocaust trying to survive and Cole has to take care of himself alone on an island. Although Touching Spirit Bear and The Devils Arithmetic characters both have internal and external conflicts, they are clearly and definitely different. Much like how the protagonist changes. Hannah Sterns and Cole Matthews have a lot of things in common. Such as, the motivation for the protagonist to change is survival. Cole needs to survive the attack from the spirit bear so that he can learn to forgive and try to live a happy life. Hannah needs to survive in order to get

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