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Then We Chased the Bear.  \nPardis Parker  \nMay 14, 2021  \nThe bear chased us. Then we chased the bear.  \nI was 7. Brent, 9. The bear’s age, unknown.  \nThe two of us, behind my house, running from the bear, then at it.  \nThat we chose to chase a black bear is confusing, its weight several times that of mine and Brent’s combined, the length of its claws shorter than the sticks we were holding, yet somehow more menacing.  \nBut we did. We chased it. Not for long. But for long enough to convey that eating us would be a chore.  \nTo be fair, this sort of thing wasn’t outside of my character.  \nAt 4, I begged my father to take off my life jacket at the pool eventhough I didn’t know how to swim, then I ran away at full speed and dove into the deep end.  \nAt 5, I begged my father to let me push our shopping cart at Zellers, then I ran away with it at full speed and smashed it into a glass cabinet full of cameras.  \nAt 6, I begged my parents to let me go bicycling on my own, then I rode as fast as I could and crashed so badly that my head, face and limbs were covered in blood. An old man stopped his car and took my bloodied body to my home. When I regained consciousness, I found myself sitting on the couch in our living room, facing the window, wailing at full volume, with my mother tending to me on my left and Brent’s mother, Mary, tending to me on my right.  \nTime and again, I threw caution to the wind. But I rarely did so with Brent (chases of black bears notwithstanding) .  \nThough just two years my senior, he was, in many ways, my protector. The only person I trusted and felt safe with. A true friend.  \nWhen I got sick and couldn’t go out to play, he was the one who acted like a clown on my lawn, making faces and falling down to get me to laugh and lift my spirits.  \nWhen I saw a bottle of beer in his refrigerator and asked for a sip, he was the one who reminded me that my family didn’t drink, then called for my mother, who appeared at his door seemingly out of thin air and yelled at me to come home.  \nWhen I fell flat on my back from high in a tree, he was the one who knelt by my side as I regained my wind, allowing me time to marvel at the plywood haphazardly strewn on the branches above, that, somehow, had lacked the structural integrity to keep me aloft.  \nThough he, too, was only a child, he was there for me, no matter the circumstance.  \nAnd my mother credits Ron.  \nBrent and his mother, Mary, had lived with Mary’s parents in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia before becoming our neighbors. This was in the early 1980s when Brent was a toddler and Mary was a single mother in her 20s. Her friends, in an effort to set her up, had convinced her to attend a singles dance in the Valley. That’s where she met Ron. They hit it off, fell in love and moved to Lower Sackville, next door to us, where Ron worked construction and Mary was a nurse.  \nRon was a good role model for Brent. He was strict, gave Brent responsibilities and spent quality time with him. They went fishing, off-roading and snowmobiling together, and Brent always pitched in and helped out whenever Ron removed the roof panels from his T-Top Trans Am.  \nAnd as Ron was generous with Brent, so, too, was their family generous with us.  \nWhen Ron and Mary had a barbecue, my parents were invited. When Ron and Brent watched “Revenge of the Ninja,” I joined them, too. When Brent’s family had dinner, I was welcomed to stay—gushing to my mother after one meal that I had just eaten the “best food ever made” —only for Mary to explain to my mother that the “dish” she had served was a box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese with slices of boiled hot dogs, confirming forever I was a child with great taste.  \nOver and over, Brent and his family were warm, neighborly and genuine. And that mattered. Especially for us, a family of immigrants settling into our first home and hoping for the best.  \nThe houses around us in our suburb of Halifax were small, singlestory bungalows filled ","cbCaifxcj4bwjAQ2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifxcj4bwjAQ2","pdf",65048,"English","# The bear chase and its aftermath\n## Childhood incidents and reckless curiosity\n## The protector: Brent\n## Family connections and neighborly warmth\n# Community context and feeling accepted\n## Neighborhood uniformity and racial tension\n## Why the friendship mattered","[{\"question\":\"What event frames the narrator’s childhood memories?\",\"answer\":\"The memories open with a bear chase: the narrator and Brent chase a black bear, then continue running as the situation escalates.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Brent support the narrator during hard moments?\",\"answer\":\"Brent protects and comforts the narrator when she is sick, falls, or feels unsafe, using playful gestures and steady presence.\"},{\"question\":\"What broader community issue does the narrator describe as growing up?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator explains that tolerance toward children later turns into slurs and worse treatment toward preteens, making belonging uneven in the neighborhood.\"}]","The Bear Chased Us - Then We Chased the Bear - Pardis Parker | PDF"]