A Bear Named Trouble Book Analysis

“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world” these were the words once uttered by Babe Ruth. The Bad News Bears is a 1976 film, remade in 2005, about a little league baseball team full of misfits that were originally excluded from their Southern California baseball league for not being talented enough, but parent protest allowed for the team to be formed. The coach in charge of this team is a drunk, ex-professional baseball pitcher named Morris Buttermaker only thinking of himself and his paychecks. The team loses their first game after having to forfeit in the top of the first inning, quickly forming a rivalry with the Yankees. The team then wants to quit, but Buttermaker has a change of heart

As a child, Jacob Portman loved to listen to his grandfather Abraham’s stories about his life in wars, his performances in circuses, and his life in a supposedly peculiar children's home run by a wise old hawk who smoked a pipe. As he grew older, though, he began to doubt his grandfather’s stories, until one day he went to visit his grandfather, and instead found him dying in the woods near his home. His dying grandfather tells him to go to the old children’s home and to “‘Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave…’” (page 37). Jacob feels something watching him, and raises his flashlight to reveal a beast that seemed to have been translated directly from his childhood nightmares. After his grandfather’s death, no one seems to believe Jacob’s story and his parents decide to send him to a psychiatrist, named Dr. Golan. Dr. Golan believes it would be best for Jacob to do as his late grandfather said and to visit the old children's’ home. Jacob and his father decide to go to the island, but later Jacob finds the house long deserted, covered in vines and trees.

Animals by Simon Rich is an outstanding short story which takes a unique perspective on the everyday life in a classroom. The story is written from the point of view of a hamster who spends his tortured life entrapped in a cage. From the first point in this story, it is clear that the purpose of the writing is not to understand the hamster, but rather to analyze the different actions of the people, and to discover that how they act towards the hamsters reflects on their character. It is curious to view the everyday interactions of people through a different set of eyes, that is done by humanizing the narrator’s perspective. Based on the actions of the many people and the treatment of the class pet, the author suggests that human nature is very much a product of the financial circumstances a person is subjected to.

E.K. Johnston draws information from Shakespeare’s, “The Winter’s Tale,” to write her book, “Exit, Pursued by a Bear.” For example, E.K. Johnston bases her story’s conflict on Shakespeare’s work. The conflict in her story is how a girl struggles to obtain control of her life after being violated (Johnston 58); whereas, Shakespeare’s story conflict is about a woman was falsely accused of having an affair and suffered injustices (2.1). Johnston’s story is very similar to Shakespeare’s, because both have a girl or woman struggle because of other’s actions. Hermione in “Exit, Pursued by a Bear,” struggles to manage of her life after she was sexually violated, and Hermione in “The Winter’s Tale,” was in prison because her husband thought she was

Jon’s parents felt grief and depression, lost, and responsible. He needed a full time care. The family had to learn how to teach Jon to eat, bath, and dress. Jon’s parents wanted him to experience

Glancy uses Pushing the Bear to contextualize concrete history. She frames the reality of the Trail of Tears using fictional accounts from multiple narrators, while also integrating historical lists and documents into her story. Pushing the Bear is unique because it tells a history through so many perspectives. Each is relatively short, and the reader is often thrown without transition from one narrator to the next. This technique creates a unique historiography because of its ability to address historical context of a large group as opposed to an individual. By giving all participants of the Trail of Tears a voice, Glancy tells a more “true” history than one ever could using a single narrator account of history. Glancy includes many bills

Dani’s struggle with the Demon Bear, while it can be interpreted as a symbol of America’s history of mistreatment of Native groups, can also be decoded as a symbol of the growing force of Big Business and the economy during the 70s and 80s in the United States. (Fawaz, Plate 25) During a period in which consumerism reigned, many Americans were forced to come to terms with a growing economic system that threatened to swallow them whole if they were not one of the lucky few to come along for the ride (Shi and Tindall, 1189). Dani stands in for the average American, taking a defensive stance as she is faced with the Demon Bear, who is much larger. She is all alone, situated in a dark expanse with no one to protect her (Fawaz, Plate 25). Americans

“The Bear,” by Tom Lombardi, is about of a husband and wife. While reading the story you start to understand that Gary, the husband, doesn’t seem to care to much about his wife, Lois. Gary doesn’t seem to even care about Lois. Gary was very unsensitive when it comes to things. In the story, while they are in the woods, Gary tells Lois to pay attention to bears, if she sees a bear, she should not be scared, but don’t be stupid. While Lois went to use the restroom one time, she encountered a bear. However, during this time, she felt that the bear was communicating with her. In the story, Lois talked about the bears puppy-like eyes and that the bear rolled over and showed his belly. In a way, this made Lois trust the bear and not to fear the bear. The bear tells Lois that he has seen Lois and Gary together making love and he

     Throughout the story the Protagonist demonstrates a very unbalanced relationship with her family members. She feels intimidated by the world around her and turns her lack of knowledge into knowledge by controlling and influencing her younger brother Laird. She does so by telling him stories and exposing him to experiences she claims to be familiar with. In her later years her relationship with her brother becomes strong as they both realize they can benefit from each other’s experiences and differences. As a child the Protagonist viewed her father as God-like because he had control and organization over the lives and deaths of the foxes. In essence he became her hero as she admired his control over the animals. In her future relationship with her father she came to see that he was simply a business man and she made a great attempt to form a deeper relationship with her father. As she began to understand he was simply human and was no longer fearful of him. Her relationship with

The Bear and the Dragon book review By: Tom Clancy Review by: Christopher Hall It was a very good book but it took awhile to read. It had 1137 pages.

Finally, females and individuals of the working class are not only those who are misrepresented within sport and the media, those with disability are also marginalized and under-privileged. In the title match against the champion Billy the Blue Bear, Maggie was hit unexpectedly, causing her to collapse to the ground, hitting her neck off the stool and unfortunately snapping her spine. Maggie then became a quadriplegic, and could no longer fight as a female boxer. Depressed and devastated, Maggie tells Frankie, “I can’t be like this forever, Frankie. I got what I needed, I got it all. Don’t let them take it all away from me” (Eastwood, 2004). In this particular scene, Maggie was referring to the fact that she had lost her leg due to the skin

In ‘Should You the Fear the Pizzly Bear’, Moises Velasquez-Manoff discusses that hybridization can be destructive as well as a solution to accelerate the adaptation in nature. Hybridization can be seen through the effects of human growth, climate change, natural occurrence and evolution, and the loss of biodiversity.

When first beginning to read this novel, the reader may think that the story is about how Jacob’s grandfather avoided being captured by soldiers when he was young but in actuality, the story is about orphans with peculiar gifts. The story starts with Jacob’s grandfather telling him stories about monsters and unique children. When Jacob was a little older, his grandfather is killed by a monster. His dying words to Jacob were, “Find the bird in the loop”, and “September 3rd , 1940”.

What if you took a very deep look at severity in the wild and the heartlessness of mankind? That is the story of White Fang. White Fang is an adventure fiction novel by Jack London, and it was published in May 1906 by Macmillan Publishers. It is a very gruesome novel that tells the story about wolves during the Klondike Gold Rush. Jack London went to the gold rush and experienced the wild for himself, and he tells about it in this story along with a similar book The Call of the Wild. This book is important because it shows how violent the animals in the wild are and how cruel people can be.

Kurosawa’s three hour adaptation of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a complicated four-part novel, had to cut out, simplify, and change the original work in order to adapt it to film. However, looking at the specific changes Kurosawa made, specifically towards the end of his film, it is clear that the changes he made weren’t merely for the sake of time. Although Kurosawa’s modifications might seem random, changes like the bedroom being hot in the book as compared to cold in the movie, eliminating the wedding scene entirely, and most tellingly having Ayako call herself an idiot with the last words of the movie dramatically narrow the argument in the story of The Idiot. While one of the central themes of the original novel was the main character’s, Myshkin, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Kurosawa cut it out entirely and instead moved the focus of his movie onto the definition of idiocy.