A Mother’s Tale (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Agee
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: Unspecified
- Setting: Unspecified
- Principal Characters: A mother cow, Her son and daughter, The One Who Came Back, The Man with the Hammer
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, God, Jesus Christ, Life and death, Holocaust, Jewish, Animals
The Story
This story, a beast fable in the manner of seventeenth century French author Jean de La Fontaine or the nineteenth century German brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is a tale told by a mother cow to her son and daughter. It opens with her son running breathlessly up the hill to ask her about the immense cattle herd he has seen moving eastward, accompanied by men on horseback and barking dogs. What are they doing? Where are they going?
The persistence of her son and the other spring calves that have joined him cannot be ignored, and mother finally tells them...
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