Cole Matthews made a lot of decisions in Touching Spirit Bear Part II.

One of them is when he

decided to change when he controlled his anger in front of Peter. This answers the essential
question that decisions define who you are as a person. At the start of the book, we thought that
he was not a good person, but on page 223-224, the text says, “All of a sudden Peter bumped
him hard from behind and sent him sprawling into the water. Soaking wet, Cole picked himself
up. He found Peter watching him with a smirk. ‘Why did you do that?’ Cole asked. ‘I didn’t mean
to bump you,’ Peter said innocently.” This defines Cole as a human being because knowing that
Peter smirked at him, he would normally have been mad. But he reacted with tolerance and
decided not to use what he uses most. Violence. This shows that Coles decisions define who he
is as a person, because his action to respond without anger, makes him humble.