The Bear Short Story

These bears also have brown eyes and dark nose pads. This is just what they look like but soon you might want to take a trip to where they live.

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

Cole thought"He could swim island to island,stoppingat each to warm up,eat,and sleep.SOONER OR LATER THERE WOULD BE A PASSING BOAT TO TAKE HIM TO MAINLAND.Nobody would ever find him,and no one would ever again tell him what to do"(32). Cole was wrong because the tides kept washing him back to shore, and he wouldn't be able to get anywhere. But then "Cole discovered that the high tide occured midday and began flowing out of the bay within an hour.He knew that the tidees repeated themselves every twelve hours,whichmeant the next receding tide would be late tonight,then another this time tomorrow. He didn't want to swim at night"(53-4). Cole makes a spear because he sees the spirit bear appear but soon afterword it disappeared again. Soon after he saw that the Spirit Bear defied him by the shore and he grabbed the spear and went to attack it but it didn't flinch and before he could even throw the spear the bear was on him in no time. 2 DAYS LATER, GRVEY CAME AND RESCUED HIM and it took him 6 months to be recover before they sent him back to the island on his own expense. Edwin then taught him about the pond and rolling down his anger with the ancestor rock,while he built his cabin again.When Peter tried to commit suicide Cole tried to

Love exists in the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro and in the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver. in Munro’s short story the plot is that of a mentally ill wife, Fiona, who falls in love with another patient while her husband still tries to hang on to their old love. Her husband eventually wants to have an affair with the wife of the man his wife is having an affair with. Their love changed because of their circumstances due to ill health. Carver’s story discusses the different definitions of love due to the type and quality of relationships; everyone has a different definition. Love also exists all over the world within different environments and cultures. The concept of love depends upon the environment in which it inhabits. Love is dependent on the life of the people in love and it also depends on their current environment. Nature and nurture are also huge factors into the development and process of love. What nature and nurture mean is whether it is due to how the person lives and acts along with their personality compared to whether it’s all in their genetics beforehand. Love is more on the nurture side instead of the nature side of human experience.

When Cole Mathews was sent to the remote Alaskan island he viewed it as a game, but it isn’t. Upon arrival Cole started off by burning down his shelter by using the white gas for his lantern and a match, which doesn’t serve him well in the long run. He has also encountered the Spirit Bear many times in the first few days and he even created weapons to try to kill it. After trying to throw a homemade spear at the Spirit Bear from point blank a lopsided match occurs between Cole and the suddenly ferocious bear. The Spirit Bear beats Cole to the edge of death and leaves Cole desperate to survive on the ground. Cole fights to survive by scrounging up anything he can find to eat, he starts by eating worms from the wet soil and slowly progresses.

All my life I have been goal driven, ever since I was a young boy I had the goal to shoot my first bear. I was an avid hunter and I loved to be in the wilderness and hunt what I could. Then finally one year when I back of age, I had my shot. I was hunting up in Swatara, MN and I was in the stand with my father. Directly below me was a 300lb black bear and it did not know we were there. All of a sudden I pulled up to shoot and I ended up missing... I was completely devastated since that was my chance to claim a black bear for myself. After that happened I started to doubt myself at first. I thought less of myself because I missed one shot. I then realized that the only way to get better is to practice. Indeed I did... The next year came by and I was by myself in my stand.

What is someone burned down 12 buildings and 6 people died in those buildings. What if, that person was an arsonist, what would you do? What if all this guy had to do was have to have circle justice but still was a freeman and he could go back to what he liked to do, burning down houses. Would you want him to go to jail or would you not care all he had to do was circle justice?

Bear Fighting [1] In a typical bear fighting event there are twenty five fights. In

In the beginning of the novel, Cole behaves cruelly when he becomes emotional. One example from the book is when Edwin is taking him to the island for the first time “Anger welled up inside cole. He hated that stupid stare. Pretending to aim for the waves, he spit so the wind would catch the thick saliva and carry it back” (Mikaelsen 5). Therefore the spit hit Edwin.

The black bear, ursus americanus, roams in different places in America including Texas. Its North America the black bears habitat ranges from Mexico all the way to Canada. In the state of Texas, the black bear is under threatened status, it also has the same status under the United States (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department). According to the Texas Parks Wildlife Department (2016) in the state of Texas they are usually found in the Western area in the Trans Pecos ecoregion. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (2016) has reported that there have been recent sightings of the Louisiana Black Bear in the Eastern part of Texas, where they used to have a strong population. This comes as surprising since the Louisiana Black Bear has an endangered status in the United States, as well as in the state of Texas. Even though the black bear species population in Texas is not as strong as it used to be in the past, many efforts are being done to recolonize the black bear in the South Western region of Texas by, studying their habitat as well as their eating habits, checking the DNA of the bears already in the area to see their genetic structures, regulating protection policies for black bears, and educating the people on the species.

Rachel had just settled under the crooked Douglas fir with her sketch pad and pencil when she was distracted by a commotion coming from the office of the Seattle Bear Sanctuary.

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.

After the Civil War, the American Southerners had a strong trauma that could not be forgotten. Considering that William Faulkner was also one of these Southerners, approaching to his texts through a psychoanalytic lens would be a meaningful work. In fact, Faulkner is one of the rare writers who faced Southern racial ‘taboo’: the miscegenation. In addition, a Southern Renaissance that what Faulkner does with the South through his novels are very similar with what Freud did with the European civilization after the World War I in his work about ‘psychoanalytic mourning’ (Lee 229). Actually, Faulkner went through the World War I just like Freud did and he is one of the “Lost Generations”: a group of writers who were strongly affected by the inhumanity of war. Thus, this essay will focus on analyzing Faulkner’s “The Bear” in psychoanalytical view.

There is a personal interest in this company as they just recently ended their contract with Busch Stadium, which is my place of employment. Build-a-Bear was able to negotiate a year by year agreement and a possible sponsorship with the St. Louis Cardinals, LLC for the future and this is what sparked my interest in the company their financial security.