Before The Bear Thayer Analysis

Hey guess what, I am writing about an explorer. Her name is Thayer and she is an explorer who is famous. She is in the North Pole for her latest expedition. My topic today is about how Thayer felt before the bear, during the bear, and after the bear. Let’s jump right into it.

At the beginning of the story Thayer feels frustrated. In the text it explicitly states “I’m normally a morning person but there was something about the intense cold, the tent frost down my neck, and my sore and that made that morning most unappealing.” Thayer’s description of her morning includes detailed adjectives to allow readers to feel the emotions experienced by Thayer. Thayer stresses the intense cold causes her to have a difficult time completing her daily chores, and her sore hands create obstacles for her to take the tent down. This made her frustrated. Also at the beginning of the story the author states “...only to find that after the third spoonful it was frozen. So much for a leisurely breakfast .” We can infer from this example in the text that she is frustrated because after one bite and she was looking forward to having a relaxing breakfast and all she got instead was frozen food.

This is shown when Thayer explains this “...I frantically cried to remember all the inuit had told me.” The words Thayer uses when she comes upon the bear shows that she is nervous. Now that Thayer is 100 ft. away from the polar bear. She is very fearful. This is shown This is shown through her figurative language such as when she uses a simile to describe her nerves as “tight as violin strings”. And when she used a metaphor to describe her heart to be “heard from base