The Big Scary Bear

I started reading this story it struck me as being completely diffrent than any of the material we've been reading throughout the semester. I had never before read anything by Faulkner so when I picked up the book it was quite different and didn't think I would like it. But once I started getting through the descriptive part of the novel and focused on the actual situations it was a lot easier to understand. The story so far introduces us to a group of woodsmen, campers, or something along the lines of. Their annual trip into the woods consists of attempting to see and possibly kill a bear that has been around for ages. Within the group there is a young boy. This boy has a different connection with the woods, he enjoys it, some would say he has a bond with it. Due to this bond, as he grows he gets better as finding his way around the woods without compasses or any other manmade instrument. This surprises the rest of the group since they're older men who have more "experience" than the young lad. Another surprising fact is that the boy is the only one who has ever actually gotten close to the bear. While the others go for the sole purpose of finding the bear, the boy actually goes out and encounters him. This is facinating. A mix of nature and innocence meeting in the wild. We'll see what the rest of the book brings along and just how much this boy learns to develop in this world.