Something different

It's really true that you learn something new everyday. Friday was the first time I had ever seen or heard of The Grizzly Man. Today I began reading about Indian mounds, which I know nothing about. Although two very different stories, they are similar in the sense that they both somewhat go beyond understanding and recognition.
The only people who seemed to have an idea of why Timothy Treadwell wanted to live with wild bears were his love ones. Everyone else either seen it as foolish or brave and respectable. Treadwell made claims of trying to protect the bears. In all honesty I don't think him living with them each summer kept them any safer than when he was not there. I haven't seen the whole movie but from the part I did see it doesn't look like he was doing any protecting. And what exactly was he protecting them from, hunters? Well no matter how one may view Treadwell's story, he did cross boundries no one thought possible and in a way semi-bridged a gap between man and animal.
As mentioned before, there are the 'mysterious' Indian mounds. These were structures, when first seen, unlike any thing else at that time. It was new and different, which raised curiosity. The biggest problem with these mounds were figuring out their designers. As I was reading, I got the impression that early researchers didn't want to give the Native Americans credit for these great creations. They come up with everything from a "lost race" to saying that the Native Americans didn't live alone before the "discovery."
The similar them in both of these stories is crossing boundries and doing something new and getting the credit one deserves for it. Eventually The Native Americans got the credit they were due for the mounds but Treadwell on the other hand doesn't receive his credit fully. Everyone doesn't agree that he did something new by crossing the boundry he crossed. Many can't get pass feeling that it was foolish and harmful. But Treadwell still did it.