The Yearling (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: Florida scrub country
- Principal Characters: Jody Baxter, Penny Baxter, Ora Baxter, Fodder-Wing Forrester, Oliver Hutto, Grandma Hutto, Twink Weatherby
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Gender roles, Nature, Nineteenth century, Friendship, Poverty or poor people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Revenge, Loyalty, Florida, Hunting or hunters, Bears, Deer, Arson
- Locales: Florida
The Story:
The Baxter family consisted of Penny Baxter, his plump wife Ora, and their son Jody. They lived in a simple cabin in the Florida scrub country, where patient, hardworking Penny eked out a meager living by farming and hunting.
Young Jody still saw life through the eyes of a child and found a boy’s pleasure in building a flutter mill at the spring when he should have been hoeing the garden patch.
One spring morning, the family discovered that Betsy, their black brood sow, had been killed by a bear. Penny recognized the tracks as those of Old Slewfoot, a...
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