Doe Season by David Michael Kaplan Essay

at that place are many minor motifs presented in the short story Doe Season by David Michael Kaplan, visual aspect in Portable Literature Seventh Edition on pages 368 through 378, however there is only one overwhelming theme presented throughout the total of the short story. It is through the protagonist, Andy, a nine-year-old tomson, which the theme of coming of age, and the struggle most children are forced to experience when faced with reality of having to grow up and chair childhood behind is presented.Before going on this hunting hinge upon Andy has yet to realize the truth about the way she behaves, she does not find it amusing that she enjoys the same activities that her father and young boys enjoy. It is only when her father made the comment Thats what the woods are all about anyway Its where the women begettert want to go Kaplan 374. Andy is immediately embarrassed when her father makes this remark. She realizes that the three men with her on this hunting trip see her as just other one of the boys rather than a young womanhood when Charlie and Mac begin to pick on her, saying things like She aint a woman Kaplan 374 and Shes half a boy anyway Kaplan 374. Charlie Spoon then proposes that Andy has a choice to make regarding her gender when he asks her which gender she choses to be A boy or girl Kaplan 374 referring to Andys decision to be called a boys anticipate, Andy, as opposed to her real name Andrea.She responds simply to Charlies scruple I am a girl Kaplan 374 attempting to put a stop to Charlies teasing. In this moment Andy realizes that she is no longer a child, allowed to play in the dirt and hang out with the boys without judgment, but she is a girl who should no longer enjoy the same activities as her father. This moment in the story is very(prenominal) significant to revealing the theme as it illustrates the initial moment of recognition by Andy that she is no longer allowed to behave like a young boy. There are also times in the s tory that seem to refute the theme, depicting the image of a nine year old girl who lock wants to be just like her father, hunting with the guys. Andy heldthe cup like her father did, not by the handle but around the rim. Kaplan 370. In this passage it is revealed that Andy was neer allowed to drink coffee spot at home with her mother, but on this hunting trip her father allowed her to have a cup with the rest of the guys. Although, while drinking it She felt a miniature queasy Kaplan 370 she drank it all, trying to impress her father and their friends.This desire to impress her father, Charlie and Mac may give the impression that Andy has no desire to grow out of being daddys little tomboy but instead wishes to remain as so. However, this scene only develops the theme more deeply because it reveals to the reader Andys complete unawareness of the coming passage from child to young lady. I arrived at this theme after study about the internal and external struggles that Andy expe riences throughout the hunting trip she is attending with her father, his friend, Charlie Spoon, and Charlies son, Mac. At the beginning of the trip Andy is still daddys little tomboy, so much so that she is almost like a son to him rather than a daughter. However by the end of the hunting trip Andy has developed into daddys young woman, deciding to no longer be called Andy, a boys name, but Andrea, the name she was given at birth, the name of a lady.She is no longer intrigued by hunting, a males activity, but is instead disgusted by it. When Andy watches her father cut open the cervid she shot she runs in the opposite direction, leaving behind daddys little tomboy and becoming daddys matured girl as she runs And at present they we all calling out to herCharlie Spoon and Mac and her fathercrying Andy, Andy (but that wasnt her name, she would no longer be called that) yet louder than any of them was the wheel blowing through the treetops, like the ocean where her mother floated in green water, also calling Come in, come in, while all around her roared the mocking of the terrible, now inevitable sea. Kaplan 378