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The Final Project

by Peiran, Vince

Characters

   Cole Matthews

The main character of the novel. At the starts of the novel, Cole just is a fifteen –years old, but violently hitting and assaulting classmate caused he convicted juvenile delinquent from Minneapolis. When he was in the court, his parole officer—Garvey want to help him. Then Cole met the Circle Justice, and he was carried to a hellish island. During that time, Cole learned that everyone should not to be angry, forgive is the way to control back yourself.

Garvey

   Garvey works in juvenile justice system, he let Cole into the Circle Justice and help him to heal. He is the first to propose that Cole go through Circle Justice, and even comes in to the juvenile detention center on weekends to talk to Cole and help him through difficult times, even though Cole initially shows him no respect or appreciation.

Edwin

Edwin is a Tlingit Indian from Drake, Alaska who is brought in to help Cole through his time of banishment on an island by the Tlingit village of Drake. He truly wants to help Cole in his path to healing. He teaches Cole different Indian dances and routines on the island that help him to through the difficult times.

  Mr. Matthews

Mr. Matthews is Cole’s father. At first, he seems to be very generous in try to help Cole, but he is alcoholic. When he gets drunk, he used to beat Cole frequently, and this experience caused Cole’s anger. At the end of novel, Mr. Matthews was got the punishment of his action.

Mrs. Matthews

Mrs. Matthews is Cole’s mother. She is a very passive woman who always overdress for events. For these and other reasons, Cole feels very distant from her mother. When Cole’s father beat up Cole, she just simply stand passively at the side.

Peter Driscal

   Peter is Cole’s classmate who was beaten up by Cole. Cole smashing his head against the sidewall. Peter got some badly injuries and he is shy, quiet and terrified after that. He felt too anger from Cole, but that is against Cole. Afterward, Peter was healing by his own path, and forgave Cole.

   Spirit Bear

   If Cole is a central character of human, Spirit bear is a truly central character of animals. Hardly a chapter goes by without a mention of him. When Cole assaults the Spirit Bear, it violently retaliates against Cole. While the figure assumes a highly symbolic role, its real existence as a formidable beast to be reckoned with is a strong counter to Cole’s own pride and anger.

Plot

       Cole Matthews is a fifteen-year-old juvenile delinquent from Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the first few chapters, Cole beat a classmate who named Peter Driscal onto the floor of his school sidewalk, that made Peter suffers head trauma, speech problems, and constant nightmares, thus Cole got trouble with law. People think law couldn’t save him, so they decide to banish him to a hellish island. During this time, Cole take a soak in a freezing pond every morning to clear his mind of anger. Then, he take a large rock called the “ancestor rock” up to hill. Cole is healing by dancing the “animal dance” and carve totem.

Scene

In a normal day, a teenager beat up another boy beside school. One of them is named Cole. He broke law because he hit another teenager named Peter badly.

Cole banished to that island, there are nothing in here, expect mosquitoes, flies and storm. He didn’t have food and drinking water. The most terrible thing is, there is a mysterious Spirit Bear living in this island with him.

The Old one

The New one

A fisherman and genie

A fisherman and Genie

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Never mind them watermelons

Peiran Qi

Well now, old Sam Gibb, he didn’t believe in ghosts. Not one bit. Everyone in town knew the old log cabin back in the woods was haunted, but Sam Gibb just laughed whenever folks talked about it. Finally, the blacksmith dared Sam Gibb to spend the night in the haunted log cabin. If he stayed there until dawn, the blacksmith would buy him a whole cartload of watermelons. Sam was delighted. Watermelon was Sam’s absolute favorite fruit. He accepted the dare at once, packed some matches and his pipe, and went right over to the log cabin to spend the night.

Sam went into the old log cabin, started a fire, lit his pipe, and settled into a rickety old chair with yesterday’s newspaper. As he was reading, he heard a creaking sound. Looking up, he saw that a gnarled little creature with glowing red eyes had taken the seat beside him. It had a long, forked tail, two horns on its head, claws at the ends of its hands, and sharp teeth that poked right through its large lips.

“There ain’t nobody here tonight except you and me,” the creature said to old Sam Gibb. It had a voice like the hiss of flames. Sam’s heart nearly stopped with fright. He leapt to his feet.

“There ain’t going to be nobody here but you in a minute,” Sam Gibb told the gnarled creature. He leapt straight for the nearest exit – which happened to be the window – and hi-tailed it down the lane lickety-split. He ran so fast he overtook two rabbits being chased by a coyote. But it wasn’t long before he heard the pounding of little hooves, and the gnarled creature with the red eyes caught up with him.

“You’re making pretty good speed for an old man,” said the creature to old Sam Gibb.

“Oh, I can run much faster than this,” Sam Gibb told it. He took off like a bolt of lightning, leaving the gnarled creature in the dust. As he ran passed the smithy, the blacksmith came flying out of the forge to see what was wrong.

“Never mind about them watermelons,” Sam Gibb shouted to the blacksmith without breaking his stride.

Old Sam Gibb ran all the way home and hid under his bed for the rest of the night. After that, he was a firm believer in ghosts and spooks, and he refused to go anywhere near the old cabin in the woods.

In the story, “the lady or the tiger”, the tiger will come out of the opened door because the princess loved the man and she don’t want to him marry others. The first reason is we know that the princess was as wild and reckless as her father, because in the story the writer told us, “She was as wild and reckless as her father”. The second reason is if the man choose the door with the lady behind it, he must marry that lady, even though he loved the princess very much, because in the story have a sentence that “Never before had a slave dared to love the daughter of the king”. That mean the man loved the princess. If he marries a lady who he doesn’t love that was grievous, if the princess loved the man, she mustn’t want man grievous. The third reason is the princess hate that lady, because she had dared to look at princess’s lover. That makes the princess don’t want the man choose the door with the lady behind it.

So the tiger behind the door.

The Chief is an important character in the story “The stolen letter”, because he is clever, cautious, and direct.

In the story, Chief can know what Minister’s habit is, and use that to help him to search Minister’ house, that shows Chief is a clever man.

The Chief is a caution and alert man. Because when he finished his search, he always took everything bake and eliminate traces. I think only alert and cautious people can do that.

He is a direct man, because he don’t have evidence to prove who stolen this letter but he jump to conclusion that thief is the Minister and search his house.

So Chief is a clever, alert and direct man.

Sleep cause all this

One day, Tom and his father were driving the car. They wanted to go to a country town and purchase food and articles for daily use. There are far away between Tom’s house and the country town. When they bought them, it was early in the afternoon. They are very tired and sleepy. “Son, I’m sleepy, how about you?”: The father asks Tom. “Me to dad.” He finished his answer, and go to sleep. The father was still driving but son was begin to snore. Father rolled down the window to make sure himself can’t fall asleep. The breeze fondled his face, the setting sun sprinkled sunlight, the clouds in in the sky was shined very red by the sun. Father driving the car while view the scenery.

After 30 minutes, father was defeated by sleepy, he was sleeping! Their car was coming to a little cliff, just has 12 miters high, but they wasn’t wake up! They didn’t know what thing will happened. The car was fly off the little cliff and full down in a big tree. Father was awakened by a huge shock. He shook Tom weak up and said :“Weak up man, we are in trouble.” Tom haven’t open his eyes and asked:” what’s happened dad? Why don’t you driving? The police checked the driver’s license?” ”No, you should open your eyes I think.” ”What’s going on? I don’t think car was broken, because I can hear the engine roar.” ”No, our car is pretty good I think. Pleas open your eyes.” Father was green about the gills. When Tom opened his eyes, he was screaming:” Oh my God! We are wedging in the tree!”

THE END……