Hook | Hook

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Author: Walter Van Tilburg Clark
First Published: 1940
Type of Plot: Fable
Time of Work: The 1930's
Setting: The central California coast
Principal Characters: Hook, A Japanese farmer
Genres: Fable, Short fiction
Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, 1930’s, California, West, U.S., Fear, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Birds, Hunting or hunters, Guns, Animals, dangerous, Wounds or injuries, Hunger, Starvation
Locales: California

As a fledgling hawk, Hook is matter-of-factly pushed from the nest by his parents during one of the recurring droughts common to the semi-arid terrain of the central California coast. Preoccupied with their own survival, his parents abandon him to the sand and brush along the dry river bed. As hunger takes precedence over parental and reproductive urges, the father and mother go their separate ways to course about the dry hillsides looking for prey, leaving their undeveloped fledgling to his fate. Still partially covered with down, lacking flight feathers, thin and...

Hook | Hook

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