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    the Grizzly Maze book, the author Nick Jans writes about the Timothy Treadwell, who spent and sacrificed his whole life for the bears. Treadwell lived around brown bears in a National Park in Alaska for thirteen seasons. He became a national celebrity in the United States, claiming to defend the bears from poachers and other threats. For many years, he educated people about the bears while protecting them from intruders. One day Treadwell and his companion Amie Huguenard were mauled and eaten by brown

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    Timothy Treadwell was a living representation of the romanticized relationship between humans and nature. Not only did he live alongside wildlife, but he spoke of having dominance over the bears he interacted with. Unfortunately, his eccentric passion and devotion to bears lead to his tragic death, but the videos of his experience live on. Herzog uses them to depict Treadwell as a troubled man descending into the depths of his own disturbed mind. He seems to want the interactions with bears to be

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    The Grizzly Man movie is about Timothy Treadwell a tanned, good-looking man in his forties, someone who could charm his way through anyone and he did do that with bears for 13 years. Treadwell spent thirteen summers at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Reserves. On the last two years Treadwell’s girlfriend Amie. on their thirteenth year, they were supposed to go back home to California but things went wrong at the airport that frustrated Timothy. They went back to Alaska’s Katmai National Park where

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    The book “The Grizzly Maze” by author Nick Jans, tells the fatal story of a man known as Timothy Treadwell and his dark obsession with bears and the wilderness. Timothy is a self proclaimed “Bear Expert” who devoted his life to protecting Grizzly bears from the dangers of poaching. He began to research bears on his own and began to spread his “knowledge” to thousands of people through books,media, and even as a classroom speaker. He wanted to protect the grizzlies so much that he even went as far

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    Man to show viewers how much interest Timothy Treadwell demonstrated towards human nature and how he demonstrates human nature through himself. Timothy Treadwell spent thirteen long summers in Alaskan Peninsula. He went to go portray his love and protection to the wild life and grizzly bears, which lead him to his miserable death. Herzog creates a sequence of scenes, comments, and interviews from people who is well connected directly or indirectly with Treadwell. His purpose of directing the Grizzly

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    The work of Timothy Treadwell, since its beginnings, has been incredibly divisive as people continue to argue over the effects it had on the bears and their preservation. Werner Herzog aims to highlight this divide, as well as assert his own views, in the film Grizzly Man. While there is no uncertainty that Treadwell views the Grizzlies to be misunderstood creature which may be safely interacted with using certain techniques, Herzog seems to view them as wild, unpredictable animals, suggesting Treadwell’s

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    seem to fairly indifferent. We can say whatever we want to say about our own relationships with animals, but they’re not going to ignore their own primal instincts no matter what we say. This is demonstrated through Timothy Treadwell’s experience with the grizzly bears in Alaska. Treadwell truely believed to be a kindred spirit with the

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    to defend yourself. This is what Timothy Treadwell did, except he upped the ante and chose to live alongside the Grizzly Bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska. The last 13 years of Treadwell’s life, he spent the summer months living with the bears. Grizzly Man is a film that was created by Werner Herzog. The film show contains content that Treadwell filmed himself, as well as portions filmed after his death, that have Werner interacting with people who knew Timothy very well. I believe that this

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    activist named Timothy Treadwell. This analysis will examine the validity to the indexical and interpretive material in Grizzly Man. Herzog uses original Timothy Treadwell footage as well as personal interviews to represent the reality he perceives, using the reflexive and performative modes in the documentary. Although it is impossible to show the entire picture of Timothys story, there is enough information provided to support Herzogs position revealed at the end. Without Treadwell alive to speak

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    Timothy Treadwell, made famous after the biographical documentary Grizzly Man was released, spent thirteen summers in Katmai National Park in Homer, Alaska living amongst the region’s wild brown bears before he was ultimately killed and consumed by them. No one

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