I'd make a bear pun here, but it would be too polarizing...

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Look, I enjoyed this story as much as the next person (actually scratch that, I didn't like it that much), but this story is too predictable. Why would Faulkner waste his time writing practically an entire second half if it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the first half.

I get it, maybe he just got way too excited to kill Old Ben that he pulled the trigger and said, "I'll make the climax happen so early, it'll be a climax climax!" Don't get it? I don't either. To make matters worse, the ending of the tale of Old Ben is so predictable just as it is knowing Zelda will try to make a pun out of my name this week (just watch, I haven't looked yet at the time of writing this). We're introduced to a "character" who is a bear with a name, so he's obviously very crucial to the narrative's plot. The story contains hunters? Oh, so Old Ben will die by the end. See? There's no variation from the millions of other similar stories told throughout human existence.

I liked reading the story, sure, but I couldn't help not enjoying it on a deeper level knowing I predicted the outcome so early on. Part four seems to have no relevance to the original story other than it uses the same characters from the first half, but what can I say? I'm no author, but this was BEAR-ly a short story.

Comments on Ethan and Nat's posts.

(Zelda, don't start this war. You won't win. You'll grow Old, Ben you'll come to realize you've been Lion to yourself. This isn't a stab at you, but when I hunt, I don't play very knife. Just sit down in that Cher, O-kee? It'll stop all of De Spain.)

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