Critical Analysis Of Killing The Bear By Judith Minty

William Faulkner’s novella “The Bear” from his collection of works, Go Down Moses, is a symbolic exploration of the relationship between man and nature in the eyes of a young boy. The heart of the issue, the warped idea of the ownership of land, is revealed thought the clash of man and nature in a wild chase that ends only in blood and death. The prey is nature itself, represented by a bear, while the hunters are men, full of greed and destructive possessiveness, pursuing that which they do not understand. Ike’s idea of the bear, presented in section 1 of the novella, expresses the idea of symbolism in relation to the bear and to the hunters and what the battle between the two represents.

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

Flannery O’Connor’s novel The Violent Bear It Away tells the narrative of Francis Tarwater, a boy kidnapped by his great uncle, Mason, as a baby, to be brainwashed into believing he is destined to become a prophet. He spends fourteen years isolated in Tennessee’s countryside to be taught evils of the world, the rage of God, and to resent his family, especially his atheist uncle, Rayber, his legal guardian. After Mason’s death, he sought Rayber and is exposed to secular and urban lifestyle. Tarwater must learn to adjust from life in the country to the city and learn for himself what is true, while Rayber attempts to make a civil, educated man out of him.

Few people will ever see or come in contact with a grizzly bear. But Todd Orr, a Montanan from southwest Montana, was one of those few who has. In an article from New York times by Christine Hauser called “In a Montana Bear Attack, Lessons on Hope, Survival and First Aid,” explains what Mr. Orr did for survival and first aid to get away from the angry grizzly. The New York Times is an American daily newspaper that was founded and published in New York city since September 18, 1851. Christine Hauser is a writer that works for the New York Times.

Indeed, reading starts with an initial idea spawned by the author, but it is the reader’s responsibility to interpret, ponder, and absorb this idea in a beautiful and meaningful way. For example, a quote from one book could be lackluster to one reader and have little to no effect on them; however that same quote can move another reader to tears.

A Transactional Reader Response is described by Lois Tyson as the “[f]eelings, associations, and memories occur as we read, and those responses influence the way in which we make sense of the text as we move through it” (173). My past experiences made me able to relate to

A long time ago in a plain forest a group of squirrels was sitting around talking then the bear showed up. When he showed up all one of the bears said here comes the weirdo and they all laughed. The squirrels picked on him because they had fur and they didn't. The bear got really tired of the squirrels picking on him and he wanted it to stop so he went to the swamp and ask the wise one. The wise one was a small slimy frog that knew everything. The bear asked the frog why don’t i have fur like the squirrels I really want to have fur. The frog said if you want to get fur it will be a big risk to take. The bear replied I will do anything for fur then the frog said you will have to climb to the

Arizona was back again with her heart set on joining, well rejoining really. She had been traveling once again but found herself being pulled back here. The first time she was here it was when Ichigo was still leader, he was kind to her along with Littlepaw. There was Shininglight and a couple others but she couldn’t place their names. Then the second time around Littlepaw had done some growing up and was the leader! The polar bear was proud and thought a lot about how someone so young was leader. Of course, it isn’t like she was old when she became a medic. Either way she had a good feeling about Littlestar and prayed that they were still here.

The chapter started with Cole still lying down on the ground with a broken arm, pelvis, and rib. Today, Cole’s blood was running fast than the streaming rain until the bear approached him. The bear sniffed at Cole as if he had a strong desire to know something about Cole. As the bear stayed motionless, Cole was 100 percent sure that this gigantic beast would kill him. Strangely, Cole was not scared of the bear anymore. After the fear was gone, Cole decides to rub his shoulder so he could feel the warmth. Suddenly, the bear moves and proceeds his way to the bay.

The illegal killing and trafficking of animal parts has long been a global concern. With trading at an estimated 6 billion dollars annually, poaching has become the world’s second most profitable crime activity behind illegal drug trade. In its prevalence, poaching has driven many species to the point of extinction.

In this sophisticated picture book, I really connected with the main character, Gus who is a polar bear, because he made me think about friendship, love and death in a different and gentler way. Because from the very start, to the very end of this book, Gus was always lonely, and as soon as something good happened in his life, it disappeared as quickly as it came. Gus lives in an enormous zoo in an even larger city, and apart from the children and zoo keepers coming to see Gus, Gus had no one he could actually communicate with. Until one day Ida, a female polar bear came. Ida and Gus incredibly quickly became the best of friends, and Ida was always with Gus. Then one miserable day, Gus learns that Ida is dreadfully sick, and she will not heal.

With both writings it’s appropriate to consider their time period, especially to recognize the large separation between the works. In 1932, Woolf released The Second Common Reader, which comprises of twenty-six essays relating various literary topics. Our particular interest deals with the essay titled, “How Should One Read a Book?”, a section about exactly what the title states. Throughout the section, Woolf provides her opinion regarding how readers should read while still acknowledging how people will read in any way they desired. However, her main point deals with readers’ perception and interpretation of a work based on an understanding they should develop with the author. Instead of reading a work with no consideration, a reader reads with a writer’s mindset. As a literary writer, Woolf understands the difficulties that plague an author when writing a novel. In the essay, she suggests comprehending what a novelist does rely on the reader writing rather than reading, which introduces an interesting relationship between reader and author (Woolf, 259). This suggestion revolves around empathy and placing one’s position into another one’s shoes. Even without the obvious connection to the literary object’s identity, it represents a

On Saturday the 24th the Florida statewide bear hunt ended early. On the first day there was a total of 207 bears killed, wildlife officials say this is just under the limit set by their agency. 99 of which came from central Florida, 81 from the “panhandle”, 15 from southern Florida, and 12 from northern Florida. The original objective of this major event ,being the first bear hunt in 21 years, was to stabilize the growing bear population. In the 1970s there were as few as 300 bears now there are over 3000. The amount of wanted bears was 320. There were 33 check-in station, 4 management units where hunting has been allowed, and the hunter was given 12 hour to present the carcass where after they updated the tally each night.

In the passage from The Bear, Faulkner is outlining the reverent, supernatural, and fearful feelings that Isaac, as well as the others, placed on the bear in their minds and imaginations. Isaac at this point had never experienced the woods or the bear. He only heard the tales and stories his father and the other hunters told time and time again and glimpsed the fear in their eyes. The stories drew a undefeatable, powerful caricature of the bear and of the woods in Isaac’s mind. These narratives also revealed the lonely existence of the bear, and how he was without a wife or any children to pass his legacy onto. Somehow, it made him more formidable and invincible, and it strengthened Isaac's belief in the immortality of the bear, and how it

Fish’s Reader Response Criticism is composed of two interdependent ideas: first, that the meaning of texts is shaped by the reading experience itself, and second, that these meanings cannot be judged to be correct or incorrect, but merely belonging to one “interpretive community” or another. The first idea may be identified as the executive aspect of Reader Response Criticism because it analyzes the act of reading, while the second idea is the epistemological aspect of the theory because it circumscribes the knowledge we can acquire about a text to the merely relative. Studied independently, each aspect of Reader Response Theory offers by itself strong arguments countervailing the formalist stance of the New Critics. But as we will see,