A bildungsroman is a story where the main character looks for answers of his life through experiences. In genera like this, the main character normally has a pivotal decision that eventually changes his, or her life and allows the plot of the story to unfold. In The Bear Hunter by David Musgrove, the protagonist David faces several life changing events. These events range from breaking up with his girlfriend to killing two bears on two different occasions. But within this story, there is one pivotal moment that changes David 's life forever. This moment is when he left his hometown, but there are three components that made this such a hard thing to let go. One David had to argue and decide that he didn 't want to takeover the family business.
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He had a dream of being a writer that he was trying to pursue, but his dad had a dream of him taking over their family business. This argument gradually kept building up tension and it got so crazy that finally David 's professor had to go talk to his dad about David pursuing his dream. His professor ended up enlightening his dad and his dad realized that if he didn 't let his son pursue his dream he would resent him for the rest of his life. Also, they had plenty of enough money to send David to college so he could end up being a writer. This may not seem like a hard decision to a lot of people, but it definitely is. First thing is there is security in this job for David. If he agreed with his dad he would have made a lot of money. And I know a lot of people would say that is not a hard decision he should go with his passion. But I know so many people that are so passionate about certain things in life but they decide to go into a field that makes more money. Even I …show more content…
He believed that he loved her but after he left he was able to realize that he really didn 't. On page forty-five he states that “ The only love she felt was for the desire she caused, the terrible power emanating from her own beauty”. Basically, she didn 't really love him she loved that she could control David with her own beauty. So this haunts him throughout the story even causing him to dream about her. He realizes though that he only wanted her for her beauties and that with this she knew she could control him. On page 67 it states “I once believed Jenny could have filled what feels like such an emptiness in my heart. But now the longing I felt for her seems like it might have been something else entirely, something deeper and inexplicable. Now I think I may have tricked myself into believing all I wanted was this one girl.” I know so many couples that meet up and instantly think they are in love because they are excited about the relationship. I have experienced it, my best friend Mitchell and I hung out every other day. Then his junior year he got a girlfriend and we slowly drifted off. After about four months I only talked to him when we would occasionally see each other in the hallway at school. They eventually they broke up with each other because he really didn 't love her. He said that it was very hard, and the whole time he knew that he didn 't love her
He had a dream of being a writer that he was trying to pursue, but his dad had a dream of him taking over their family business. This argument gradually kept building up tension and it got so crazy that finally David 's professor had to go talk to his dad about David pursuing his dream. His professor ended up enlightening his dad and his dad realized that if he didn 't let his son pursue his dream he would resent him for the rest of his life. Also, they had plenty of enough money to send David to college so he could end up being a writer. This may not seem like a hard decision to a lot of people, but it definitely is. First thing is there is security in this job for David. If he agreed with his dad he would have made a lot of money. And I know a lot of people would say that is not a hard decision he should go with his passion. But I know so many people that are so passionate about certain things in life but they decide to go into a field that makes more money. Even I …show more content…
He believed that he loved her but after he left he was able to realize that he really didn 't. On page forty-five he states that “ The only love she felt was for the desire she caused, the terrible power emanating from her own beauty”. Basically, she didn 't really love him she loved that she could control David with her own beauty. So this haunts him throughout the story even causing him to dream about her. He realizes though that he only wanted her for her beauties and that with this she knew she could control him. On page 67 it states “I once believed Jenny could have filled what feels like such an emptiness in my heart. But now the longing I felt for her seems like it might have been something else entirely, something deeper and inexplicable. Now I think I may have tricked myself into believing all I wanted was this one girl.” I know so many couples that meet up and instantly think they are in love because they are excited about the relationship. I have experienced it, my best friend Mitchell and I hung out every other day. Then his junior year he got a girlfriend and we slowly drifted off. After about four months I only talked to him when we would occasionally see each other in the hallway at school. They eventually they broke up with each other because he really didn 't love her. He said that it was very hard, and the whole time he knew that he didn 't love her