short story by William Faulkner, where a boy is raised up in both fear and curiosity about a bear who haunts the local lore. With help and guidance, the boy learns to track and hunt the bear, only to discover that the bear is the one who has been tracking him all along. As he grows, it is this “great reversal” that the boy needs to come to accept. He has to be reoriented to the humbleness of his location in the wider cosmos and realize that when he surrenders to accepting his position as the one who is tracked and the one who is found, he will actually be given the opportunity he has been
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