The Bear is almost the epitome of a bildungsroman. There are several reasons why, starting with chapter one through four, he move to become more one with nature, his actions when Sam falls ill and Old Ben is killed and then his determination to give his miscenagated family their “inheritance”. Isaac comes to appreciate the wilderness and tries to keep his relationship with forest alive by abstaining from taking part in what he believes is the antithesis of the nature. At the beginning of the story, it seems as though they hunt Old Ben, just to revere in the action of it, being in nature. As Isaac becomes older so the world changes; after Old Ben has been killed Isaac does not want to leave the forest, almost as if he already knows it will not be the same. The loss of Old Ben can be equated with the move away from childhood for Isaac, as he loses both Sam and the icon that has guided him through the forest for so many years.
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