Assignmet 10 (B)

Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:

They had planes and guns and radios and GPS but in some ways they had no knowledge because they had all the gadgets; they missed the small things because they saw too big.

What is the situation here? What does the author mean when he writes “they saw too big”? Who is he talking about?

The author means here that most people living in big cities, get used to just material things, such as malls, cars, houses, etc. They don’t pay attention to things that can help you to grow in a mental, physical and spiritual way. Those things may don’t look much important, because in some cases they are not materials, such as education, family, love, etc.

Correction:
The situation here happens after the call that Susan did to the authorities when she found that her parents died. One of them asked Brian if he was the boy who survived after the plane crash. Then the same man asked to his partner if he was going to kill the bear who killed Susan’s parents, but the man said no because it was going to be very difficult to find the correct bear to kill.
When the author writes “they saw too big”, he means that the authorities would have all the necessary equipment but they didn’t understand anything about hunting, nor about hunting a wolf. They could be pay attention just in the weight, hair and color of the bear, but they could never know the bear.In this passage the author is talking about the authorities that went to help Susan. They were: the Canadian Mountie and the Natural Resources ranger.