Everything in This Country Must (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Colum McCann
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Plot: Regional, psychological
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Northern Ireland
- Principal Characters: Katie, An Irish farmer, Hayknife, Stevie
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Teenagers, Twentieth century, Rural or country life, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Accidents, Death or dying, Catholics or Catholic Church, Soldiers, Western Europe or western Europeans, Horses, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Northern Ireland
The Story
“Everything in This Country Must” is a first-person account related by fifteen-year-old Katie, who speaks in a voice that is at once straightforward and poetic. The story begins with Katie and her father working to pull their horse from a flooded river, in which one of its hooves is caught between rocks. Katie pulls on a rope to keep the horse's head above water while her father, who is smaller than she is and afraid of the river, dives beneath the surface to attempt to free the horse's trapped hoof. The threat of losing the Belgian mare carries special...
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