ELLA WILLARDSON

SPIRIT BEAR

• Represents: Whatever you do to nature comes back to you.
• Quote: "He was spitting at more than the Spirit Bear, he was spitting at his own life." (92)

WHITTLING KNIFE

• Represents: Life, Healing
• Quote: "'That knife is like life,' Garvey said. 'It can destroy you or help you heal.'" (175)

ANCESTOR ROCK

• Represents: Your life wasn't an accident, Respect life.
• Quote: "Your life isn't an accident. Many generations of your ancestors struggled through life, learning lessons, making mistakes, just as you have." (155)

HOT DOG

• Life is what you make of it, The whole world.
• Quote 1: "The whole world is a hot dog." (137)
• Quote 2: "That hot dog did exactly what you asked it to do. You asked it to feed you and it fed you. No more, no less." (137)

STICK

• Represents: Right side: Happiness, Left side: Anger, Trust
• Quote 1: "'Half of being trusted is to trust.' He reached down and picked up a thin stick." (143)
• Quote 2: "The right end of this stick is your happiness, the left side is your anger."

BABY SPARROWS

• Represents: The new beginning.
• Quotes: "Mustering all his strength he raised his head, and with a weak and parched voice he called out into the darkened branches, 'Are you okay?'" (79)

CIRCLE

• Represents: To heal you have to be able to forgive.
• Quote: "'Could it be because every part of a circle is both a beginning and an end?' Garvey asked, 'and everything is one?" (239-240)

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