Dealing with Loss in Killing the Bear Essay -- Minty Killing the Bear

 Dealing with Loss in cleanup spot the splay      Often things that we experience as children attain lasting affects on us that creep up when we least expect them. In Judith Mintys story Killing the turn in, a woman finds herself in just such a situation. She finally deals with something that happened to her as a young child that she probably neer even realized was bothering her. In this story the central character distressingly comes to grips with a major expiration of security from her childhood. Throughout Killing the Bear the author flips back and forth from the story at hand and seemingly only loosely related anecdotes about the main character and bears. 1 of the first of these side stories is about the womans childhood. It talks about something that happens to most children, the loss of an object of security. The girl is attached to a stuffed bear and her mother takes it extraneous for three months (12). She is told that when the time is over if she has stopped sucking her thumb, she can have the toy back. When the time passes, however, the child discovers...