Answer:
Before they died, the baby sparrows tried to eat the food that their mother was giving them. Cole related to this, because he never knew what parental care was, since his parents were never at home and he never felt cared for by either of them.
Step-by-step explanation:
Although you have not presented the text to which you ask these questions, we can state that you are referring to the book "Sprit bear" through the context of the question.
"Sprit bear" tells the story of Cole, who after becoming involved in a highly violent crime, was sentenced to be trapped in an indigenous reservation, so that the concepts and teachings of the indigenous people could modify the violent and criminal behavior that he presented. Although Cole resisted a lot to submit to the indigenous people's beliefs and concepts, little by little he started to get more and more involved and to feel better in contact with nature and indigenous culture. He started to understand many points of his personality. One of these points was how the lack of parental care interfered with his life. He thinks about it when he sees a mother bird, trying to feed the baby birds, before they die.