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The Place Beyond The Pines Analysis
The place beyond the pines.

Jason Burnham wanted to photograph more than just imagery of snowy mountains and heroes, but what he got instead, was a beautiful but dangerous unraveling. The trip to the Himalayas broke him down exposing the nature of his true character.
Jason grew up looking up to an Ethnographer, learning the wonders of the world. His father, Daniel Burnham, knew everything about any country. Every capital, currency, and language. However, out of all the countries and all the magnificent stories his father shared with Jason, the story involving the Himalayas and the abominable Yeti, had always interested him the most. Maybe was just the way his father told the story that really made Jason’s curiosity spread like wildfire. his
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In the north, summers can be cool and breezy, and winters are brutally cruel. While in the south, everything is tropical and gentle.The two explorers, paid a local man to drive them as close as he could to the Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, and from there, they will walk 3 miles to the Sagarmatha National Park, where they will meet with a Nepalese who will be their guide to the Himalayas. His name was Shirisha, and he didn't speak a single word of English. With nearly six hours in the car, the seemingly endless jungle traversing started to turn into the freezing tundra, and around 2000 miles of driving, the three men decided to …show more content…
A black bear stuck his head inside his tent and dragged him out by pulling his foot. Next thing he knew, a black bear was chewing in his arm. He screamed, and screamed but the bear bit harder. Its claws dig into his skin. The bear jumped up and down on his two legs breaking Jason’s ribs. As the bear continued to bite and shake side to side Jason’s defenseless body, the sour pain started to crawl up his body like if ants were biting every cell of his body. However, something inside Jason convinced him to keep going, He told to himself, ‘’play dead’’. After that, he went totally limp, and as soon as he went limp, the bear’s jaws instantly got looser and looser. The bear let him go and went away.
Jason had survived the attack of a black bear, he didn’t know what it was to follow. he could feel the multiple bites and lashes all over his body. He heard the winning sounds of Clark, but he was afraid to move. Jason feared the bear will come back and finish what he started. but the screams started getting louder and louder, forgetting completely of his injuries, he slammed back into the snow. Dragging himself beyond the pines, from where the screams came from, Jason could

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