A prompt from class

For this first assignment, please make up a fictional context for this image.  If this were a film that was just paused on this frame, who are the characters?  What is their story? 

Bobo the Bear has never seen life outside of this cage, as he was born here. The trainers come every day to feed him. There is the sweet middle-aged woman who always smells like honey and strawberries and comes to give him his food. She teeters around him carefully, and sometimes she conjures up enough courage to give a light pat on the rump or even a little rub on the head. Other than that gentle safe reassurance every day there are certain uncertainties of the many faces that all blur together. The aromas of great foods on the outside entice him. Salty and sweet and oily. But they're also all the other smells that come from the smelly creatures that ooh and aah and gaze at him.

Everyone else is gathered together around the sides but towards the third of the screen (third rule) where the sea of humans is parted is a little boy. And he doesn't look towards the bear, he looks onward. And the same light that barely touches the bear in shadow's mangy coat douses the young boy in sunlight. His mother gleams at the bear and is enraptured in the creature tossling about its cage. But her young boy, Josef, is enraptured is something more real than a creature grafted into a little collection of animals and he looks towards the real world. The boy wanders off and his parents so caught up in the show they paid for, the silly little game they decided to participate in that they miss him walking off.

For once the bear feels a tingle of something that has been jarred from him, something that he lost but never had. He felt a wild desire. The bear imagines the boy scrambling into the woods, with his eyes set on the Heavens. The boy, six at most, struggles up the mountainside until he reaches the top of the crest and the soft evening glow falls upon him. The bear sees through his eyes the zoo and the parking lot a tiny little speck compared to the glorious trees along the mountainside, and the sun-kissed fields beyond. His envy of the boy's freedom makes a growl in his stomach. A hunger that can be staved by the food here; dog chow, beef, fish, fruit, veggie, hard boiled eggs, peanuts, grapes, cereal, and whatever kids throw in. Both of these spirits are born to be free.

The boy is caught before he makes it to the parking lot. In one fist he is grasping a soft pretzel. His mom worried that he stole the pretzel insists to know where he got it, and insists to know where he got it. Josef replies, "Someone gave me the pretzel. They said... they said... I would need food for my journey."