Chapter 9: In chapter nine Cole has some kind of epiphany. There was terrible thunder and lightening that night after the fight. Cole had been watching baby birds before the bad weather, and after that the baby birds were dead. Their heads were still faced to their nest, their home. Cole thought about it and compared it to his own life and had a total different view to it all now.
Chapter 10: Cole Matthews figured it out. All because of the birds: The Circle of Life. You are being born, you live and at some day you stop breathing, that's how it goes. Cole will stop breathing someday too, and if he does it will be his time. But his time hasn't come now, he wanted to live! So he does live.
Chapter 11: Because Cole wanted to live, he had to search for food and water. He found some worms and ate them. He let the water drops in his mouth to get some fluid in his system. But it all wasn't enough. He still hadn't had much energy, until he killed and ate a mouse. On that same day he also saw The Spirit Bear again. He didn't attack him again but he just stood there like the times before that.
Chapter 12: Cole realizes he is going to die and realizes every part of it, he is good to go because he didn't gave up. He is falling in some sort of sleep and wakes up in a boat with Garvey and Edwin in it that is on its way to the hospital. It looks like his time hasn't come yet..
Chapter 13: For about 2 days Cole Matthews is treated by Rosey, the only nurse in town. He has decided to change his lifestyle completely and is only going to speak the truth from now on no matter what the consequences might be.
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Chapter 14: It's been six months since the bear attack and Cole is still recovering. He has lots of scars and won't be able to have the full use of his arm again. He is a different person now though and his mother, who has stopped drinking to support Cole in every way, too.
Chapter 15: The first meeting after the attack takes place. No one has any faith in Cole anymore. Everyone, especially Peter's lawyer wants to send Cole to prison. Only Edwin and Garvey tried so hard for him that the circle has finally decided to let him go back to the island again.
Chapter 16: Cole, Garvey and Edwin arrive at the island. They ate a hot dog together taking it as an example of the way you can live your life: You can make life a feast, or you can take it as it come as it comes.
Chapter 17: In this chapter Edwin takes Cole to and ice-cold stream in the early morning. Cole's anger is still an issue and Edwin tells him about the two sides of a stick as an example of anger.
Chapter 18: In this chapter Cole works on his cabin. When they all go for dinner Edwin and Garvey start to do the whale dance. They do such dances to seek a meaning in that certain animal. After the dances are finished they share their ideas about the animals.
Chapter 19: When Garvey and Edwin threat to send Cole back because his behaviour is bad and lazy, Cole starts to dance the wolf dance because he saw a wolf that day. He also goes to the pond alone for the first time. Cole learnt something in the pond but doesn't exactly know what. His ancestor is carried up the hill just like the day before and let's his anger roll away. Right at the moment he does that, he sees the Spirit Bear again.
Chapter 20: Cole thinks he saw the Spirit Bear again so that night at their last dinner together, they did the Spirit Bear dance. The day after, Cole was being left alone on the island.
Chapter 21: Cole has done a lot since Garvey and Edwin left. He made furniture and started to carve a totem with Garvey's knife. Cole's healing is going quite good and now knows to control and forget his anger.
Chapter 22: Cole is frustrated. Weeks have gone by and he still hasn't seen the Spirit Bear again. He carves, fishes, does his schoolwork, goes to the pond, rolls away his anger and thinks. Cole is thinking and searching for the answer to the unsolved questions.
Chapter 23: He had found the answer. Clearing his mind was the solution. He saw the spirit bear and was ready to do the dance of anger. Re-living the moulting and feelings he had felt. He re-lived his life, understanding every aspect of it. He was ready to forgive. He was ready to forgive himself, his parents and everything else.
Chapter 24: Winter has come and Cole doesn't go to the pond anymore and hasn't carried his ancestors in a while either. Cole learned that Peter has tried to commit suicide twice and desperately wants to help. He has got only one idea, but will anybody insist with that?
Chapter 25: Cole has convinced Edwin that the depressed Peter should come to the island. When they arrive with Peter Driscal's parents and Garvey he told them his whole story of the island he has been on twice. Unfortunately, Peter doesn't listen at all and says he doesn't even want to get helped..
Chapter 26: Peter is at the island but still is so silent and depressed. He refuses to talk to Cole and Garvey, who had stayed with them. After two weeks Peter is finally processing. He shoved the ancestor rock once and went into the pond, even though it didn't last long. He even let Cole sleep in the cabin because he had slept outside in the cold for so long.
Chapter 27: Roughly, and step-by-step Peter is changing. He is trying to pay Cole back by destroying the carved bear in his totem. Cole tries his hardest to support Peter and show him he isn't going to hurt him anymore. It has worked because after a few days Peter had carved a new bear into Cole's totem.
Chapter 28: Peter decided that he'd go to the pond with Cole without Garvey. Once gotten there he started beat up Cole! He screamed and punched and shoved him with his bare fists. Cole doesn't fight back and only tries to calm Peter down. Suddenly Peter starts crying and falls on his knees. Cole hugs him and after a while they both see the Spirit Bear. Peter is astonished by the huge white creature and forgave Cole for his deeds and Cole did the same. Peter Driscal and Cole Matthews forgave themselves and each other and were ready for a new beginning in their life.
