The story The Bear That Wasn’t, covers the concept and idea of people never changing due to outside influence. When the bear awoke from hibernation and found himself in the middle of a factory, he was an outsider to the factory workers. Because the factory workers had never seen a bear at the factory and the only bears they had ever seen were either in the circus or at the zoo, they made an assumption that it couldn’t be a bear. Instead, they insisted that the ‘bear’ was actually a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat. Every official whom they checked with agreed, “You can‘t be a Bear. Bears are only in a zoo or a circus. They’re never inside a factory,” As they went on to prove he was not a bear they asked the bears in zoos and
