When Grizzlies Walked Upright

To my surprise I actually enjoyed reading this story. I realized that each paragraph had its own moral. One of the first morals I read was to always listen to your parents. I got this from the part when the father tells the daughter to tell the wind to quiet down but not to stick her head up the hole because she would get blown away, and being a rebel that every teen is nowadays, she put her head out the hole. The theme, however, seemed consistent. The theme seemed to be the beginning of creation. When the daughter disobeyed the father, to me, she played the role of Eve, in Genesis. The bear she married was Adam. The reason being was because Adam didn't know better about eating the apple from the tree, and the bear didn't know better about not marrying a human. I also caught another theme in this story, acceptance. As God had accepted Adam and Eve and then was angry with them, the father in the story seemed to play a similar role. The bears represent the serpents because the father told the bears " Get down on your hands and knees. You have wronged me. and from this moment all of you will walk on four feet and never talk again." That part relates to the serpent because God told the serpant he shall never walk again, and surely he never did. These are the observations I made from the story.