1. The ancestor rock is an ordinary rock, but it was picked when Edwin came to this island.

2. When Edwin and Garvey left the first time, Cole felt angry. He stuck out his middle finger when they left and later on, he burnt down the shelter Edwin built. When Edwin and Garvey left the second time, Cole only felt fear. He didn't stick out the middle finger, and he made the second chance count.

3. Cole used 2 hours to pull the log toward to fire. When he went to sleep, he was troubled by the thoughts of carving the log into a canoe for an escape.

4. Cole probably wants to see the Spirit Bear because he wants to learn something from it.

5. Cole realizes that the dance of anger was actually the dance of healing and forgiveness while he was dancing.

6. He doesn't really know what animal represents forgiveness.

7. Cole wanted to help Peter with his depression, so he comes up with a plan to get Peter to come on the island to heal. On the way, Cole thinks Peter might see that's he's changed.

8. I probably wouldn't come out of the skiff if I didn't have to if I were Peter.

9. He eats the Snicker bar and lets Cole sleep in the cabin with him later on.

10. Well, maybe because everything is circles and that everything in a circle is a beginning and an end and that a circle was the only thing that Peter could teach Cole to carve.