I have almost no connections to this book because my life is so much different from Coles. The reason why I don’t have many connections is because I seem and feel like it will be easier if I read alone and not out loud. This book doesn’t connect to me because Cole is adventurous, brave and he lives on the edge… and I am not any of these. The book is very very strange tome and for me. When I think about metaphors I the book I think of weird things. The quote “ what you do to the animals you do to your self “