How I Killed A Bear Analysis

The writer named Charles Warner writes it creatively in his text, "How I Killed a Bear" in the ways that portray the stimuli. Most of the writer descriptions are targeted at keeping up appearances and saving face toward the readers as well as the people who stayed close to him, as the narrator desires. However, his descriptive words those occurrences in the situation of the bear attacks, and events that occur before it in flashbacks, are all in masks to hide his insecurities and shortcomings to prove that he is a man. In some occasion, he uses irony to cover up the fact that he is self-hatred due to his weakness to be honorable or protective of himself. At the very first instance, narrator uses descriptive text to define the main reason why he carries the weapon, “It adds to the manly aspect of a person with a tin pail if he also carries a gun” (p.21). In retrospect, it is clear that he takes the gun with him to save appearance rather than protecting himself. This statement is more aimed toward the reader as well as the people who stayed close to him …show more content…
His emotion and thought are expressed through his use of vivid description to express his elation to readers. However, even as the procession carries home the bear’s carcass and expresses their awe over his single-handed victory over the scruffy beast, the narrator’s true feelings are illustrated through his words. He states phrases that seem almost innocent in their descriptive aspects; for instance, “Our best preacher up there never drew anything like it” (p.29). Nevertheless, the above statement has a deeper aspect. It reveals that the narrator feels proud after having compared himself to someone relatively famous and won; this, despite the fact that he maintains a modest appearance towards his family and the bear-hunter as he gives a detailed account of how he killed