Ending Scenes

    The ending of The Bear really resonated with me, especially the last part of it all. Boon up against the tree, with his gun dismembered, beating it senselessly as it lay in pieces in front of him. I felt a huge sense of pity for him because at this point it’s almost like he’s just completely lost it. We saw the development of the characters in the book, and now Boon is deteriorated to the point of destroying the only thing he knows, but at the same time desperately clinging on to it for hope when there is none. His voice, hoarse and strangled. His identity, shattered. In relation to a bigger picture for this, this could almost be similar to the generation of people this book is written for holding on to what they have always known before a new era of new ways of living and knowledge. It is also interesting to see how leading up to this point, he is actually hunting on the way there, and he finds Boon, who has abandoned hope but yet at the same time is clinging on for dear life for just the hope of his old ways of living, of thinking, of surviving to still live, knowing it will die at his hands, at that generations hands. A very intense scene, one that felt very real to me and was almost the exact moment needed to sum up the nature of the book itself.

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