View of the World From Different Ages :: English Literature Essays

View of the World From Different AgesIn the story of the Bear the teen boy was not allowed to join the hunt until he was ten years old. He was taught all the stories and heard all the legends of the coarse bear with the round-shouldered print his entire childhood and he knew all about the great bear everyone always was talking about. As people grow quondam(a) they are maturing in ways to prepare them for life and all of the hardest tasks that result be put in front of them. This boy was told gentlemans gentlemany stories of the bear, round of them had extreme exaggeration, and others didnt. All the stories he heard were to help him when his time came to expression the bear. When the boy had his first chance to go out on a hunting trip with the men the first thing Sam told him was Be scared, you cant help that, but dont be afraid. own(prenominal)t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you nook it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.(793) At the age of ten he was ready to shoot the bear, and so removed he never had the chance to see it, because the bear knew the boy was a coward at the time and the bear knew he would shoot him because the boy did not yet respect him as the more experienced hunters did. The boy matte the bear and this taught him even off more than he already knew about it from the stories he had been told. He recognize for he first time that the bear which had operate in his listening and loomed in his dreams since before he could remember to the wayward and which, therefore, must have existed in the listening and dreams of his father and Major de Spain and even old General Compson, too, before they began to remember in their turn, was a deadly animal, and that if they had departed for the camp each November without any actual hope of convey its trophy back, it was not because it could not be slain, but because so far they had no actual hope too.(791) These kinds of things are what he was constantly creation told and not that he felt the presence of the bear he realized that they were all true.