Brother Bear

Brother bear starts with a man who goes after a bear once it kills his brother.  He seeks revenge to kill the bear that killed his brother, but he does not realize that the bear was just trying to protect his cub. Once he kills the bear, the bear’s spirit enters him to turn him into a bear. His family then tries to kill him, so he must run away. The man then goes through all this trials to which he must survive which makes him realize how hard it was to be the bear in which he killed. This moral comes back to walking a mile in somebody else in somebody else’s shoes before judging them. This is such an important lesson in today’s society. Everybody seems to be judging what everybody else does. This might happen in a small setting where you are walking through Walmart and see a person wearing slippers, or it may happen it the Hollywood world where people are constantly judging what Catelyn Jenner is doing. Our society has turned into a setting where people are constantly being conscious of what they are doing in order to not be judged. This movie is important because it helps tell people at a young age what not to do. You never know what the other person is going through. The bear attacks the man’s brother because it is trying to protect itself. He does not realize this because he did not know what the bear was going through before he was put in that position. This can be related back to how we view people. We may sit and judge the person who is always dressed in old clothing that is not top of the line, but we do not realize that that person can only afford those clothes. They may have gotten them handed down to them and think those clothes are the world, but if the world is always judging them about it then they feel bad about themselves.  The boy who always walks into school late may have had to walk because he does not have a parent at home to help him get up and to school on time. People judging him for this will make him shut down and hate school. We as a society need to look into the moral that Brother Bear is trying to tell us. We need to think of all the things that are happening to others before judging them for a situation. We need to figuratively put ourselves in their shoes before casting down a judgement upon them. We as a society may end up in that position one day, so we need to not be like the man in Brother Bear and see the damage judgement does to others. Take a walk in another pair of shoes sometime, and you will be surprised what you may learn.