Touching Spirit Bear

What do happiness and anger have in common?They are both an emotion Explain how they relate to cole

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They go to the stream and Edwin declares that they will go swimming in a freezing pond to teach Cole a lesson. He makes Cole dip completely into the water shoulder-high and then asks him to break a stick, whose left side represents anger and right side represents happiness. The lesson implied is that if you focus on anger and try to break the left side off, a left side of the stick always remains. Edwin tells Cole how when he was banished to the island he would dip himself everyday in the freezing pond and try to focus on the happy end of the stick, not the angry end. Both Happiness and anger are emotions that a person can react to: they involve a point of view. Cole can choose to remain angry or he can choose to be angry.