Exploring The Heart Of Truth In 'The Bear'

Yet, he comes to realize that these stories are what define the man he is today. These stories to him are the truth, his truth of his own past and a reminder to him that those things actually happened. His stories to him serves as a reminder of what he did and did not know, and what he became or what he did not

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.

The truth seems to be apart of everyday life, or at least that's the way people want it to be. Life is never full of truth, there are going to be lies and deceit amongst everyone, everywhere. Whether it be the rich of England or the poor in Africa. Some lies are to try to protect the feelings of others, some are to protect the survival of the one telling the lie. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the truth is avoided in order to protect the wellbeing of others through the examples of Marlow, painting of the woman, and Kurtz.

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

“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

“He ignored the thistles as the bear sank its teeth into his thigh, lifting him like a rag doll.” Cole Matthews, a 15 year old juvenile delinquent was attacked by a bear shortly after he said he was going to kill it. Matthews ended up in this situation by beating up a fellow classmate, Peter Driscal. Cole did not want to go to jail for the amount of time he was required, so he decided to join Circle Justice and go to an island for a year to think about what he has done. While Cole was on the island he ran into a Spirit Bear, resulting in the bear attacking him.

Escaping from the severe reality of life helps a person get through their difficulties within life. Whether they have emotional or physical problems, or a person just needs a good story, reading can help a person explore new worlds through their imagination. I loved reading from a young age, and treasured the moments when my mother read to me. She helped me explore the unique worlds that authors try to portray through their writing.

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.

She knew he was lying but went along with it. One night he again asks if they can meet up and she says yes. He waited thirty minutes then heard rustling in the woods. He assumes its the girl in her bear skin cloak and walks up and puts his arms around the bears neck. The bear stands up and hugs the man.

Unlike the Anti-Transcendental actions Ahab and Santiago, the boy does not shoot the bear. The boy has preconceived notions about Old Ben, the bear, from stories he has heard from his father. He is led to believe that Old Ben is an immortal, evil, and omniscient being. To the boy, the bear is an objective. Once he is finally of age to hunt, the boy realizes there is more to the bear than what he has been told.

On that note, the subtitle states that the book is “a camping guide to keeping bears and your family safe.” Not only did this tell the audience what the book was about, but it also appealed to their emotions (pathos) by threatening their cherished

Old Ben is a majestic beauty that Ike describes as “big as he expected, bigger, dimensionless,” (200). This character helps represent the conflict Ike has with the wilderness and society. Ike is tainted by societal rituals such as a watch and compass. The watch is a representation of time that cannot be reached in an eternal wilderness and the compass represents ownership of land; the original sin of society. Ike only sees the bear after he removes these items leaving society and truly entering the element of the wilderness.

(Paulsen, pg. 2) This helps the reader understand the level of intelligence that the character has because, it shows he wasent inttegent enought to leave the bear alone and let it do it’s thing he was wanting the bear to know that it ewas his territory and not to mess with anything on it. “ He knew the bear could have done much more damage than it had. He had seen a bear tear a stump out of the ground like a giant tooth when it was looking for grubworms and ants. This bear

mongrel dog with him that he had trained to catch the bear. The dog was fast

Kenai listen to me listen to me, Sitka did this. In the film Brother Bear, many things are going through young Kenai’s life, besides being the youngest and stubbornest of his brothers, he is now going through the stages of becoming a man. But because of his stubbornness, after his anointing ceremony and get the bear of love and when they find their fish taken by a bear, he choses a separate route from his brothers to track the bear and find himself confronted by the bear. Sitka, his older brother, save Kenai by taking his own life to stop the bear that would have killed his youngest brother. Kenai driven by grief and guilt by the death of his brother that he seeks to avenge him. but by doing so he gets turned into a bear, but Kenai still does not understand why and so we as humans tend to judge cultures we don’t understand because we think they are so different from us even though they aren’t as different as we think.