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Pshigoda

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English 3-2

Mrs. Pshigoda

4.      September 2009 

Mama’s boy

 

Everything began in the winter, when Mama Bear protected her children from freezing to death in her dark and stony cave. She prepared the long hibernation by storing food and making the cave warm and comfortable.

Her two children were absolutely unlike. The boy loved his mother more than everything else, so he fought against his sister to sleep as close to his mother as possible.

She, the girl, instead was curious and adventurous, she loves her mother too, but she did not have any problems with being without her and she could care for herself.

When the winter was over Mother Bear wanted her children to become independent, which was a great idea for her daughter. She left her home as the snow began to melt.

But the boy, who loved his mother so much had no intentions to leave.

“I want to stay with you, mommy, forever! I want to live with you and care for you, FOREVER!!!”

Of course Mother Bear loved her son, but she knew that she had to leave as she always did before.

She also knew that her son would not go on his own, so she decided to plant a berry bush in front of the cave. “So that he has something to remember me…”

When he came home from fishing, he caught two big fish, his

 mother was gone. Only the berry bush was there, as a good-bye letter.

He was not sure, what to do next, s he wanted to wait for his mother as long as she would be gone, even if it was forever.

The first 2 years he took care of his berry bush as he had for his mother, but he became tired and his movements became slower and slower.

More years passed by and the bear boy became a bear man, still waiting for his mother.

He was weak, old and lonely instead of strong and a wise father, he could have become. So he sat down and became stone. The sculpture of this bear looked as if it was the symbol of strength, what he could have been, if had not waited for his mother.

Years and years later Winnetou and his son went hunting. Both of them were strong native American men, who had no fear of fighting a bear. Winnetou’s son was hungry and he discovered a berry bush in front of a cave, he asked his father if he might eat them and Winnetou knew this kind of berries, so he allowed him to eat.

While he was eating something caught his eyes, he saw a huge bear of stone sitting in the cave.

Winnetou explained to his son: “That, my son, is a bear, strong and wise at the same time, as every man wants to be and as you may will become.”

So they went back to their tribe told them the story of a great, manly and strong bear and they came back to the cave and took this bear with them together to their home. It became the symbol for strength and masculinity.

But nobody knew that this new symbol actually was a weak bear who could not live without his mother.

 

 


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