As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alistair MacLeod
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Magical Realism, fantasy
- Time of Work: The nineteenth and the twentieth centuries
- Setting: An unspecified place by the sea and Toronto, Canada
- Principal Characters: The gray hound, The gray hound's master, His teenage son, His younger son, His great-great-great-grandson, His eleventh son
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Parents and children, Dogs, Twentieth century, Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, Brothers, Fear, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Fishing or fishermen, Mortality, Ocean
- Locales: Toronto, Canada
The Story
“As Birds Bring Forth the Sun” begins as the story of a man whose family name, which is never revealed, indicates a Scottish Highland heritage. He lives by the ocean and has a large family whom he supports by fishing and farming. The man has a huge gray dog, that is devoted to him. He adopted her when she was just a small puppy that someone had left on his doorstep. Later, he saved her life again by nursing her back to health after she was run over by a cart. Though he has never given the dog a name but simply calls her cù mòr glas, or “the big gray...
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