The Yearling AUTHOR: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings POINT of VIEW: 3Rd Person

BOOK TITLE: The Yearling AUTHOR: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings POINT OF VIEW: 3rd person SETTING: CHARACTERS Plot Stage 3/Body Paragraph 3 Historical Period 1870s Climax: Penny tells Jody that he must shoot Protagonist: Jody, a boy, the Flag or they will all starve to death; Jody runs “yearling,”young, immature, looks away; when he comes back, he sees his mom for people to ease his loneliness, Day/Month/Year: shoot Flag but she only injures him. He has to loves to be out in nature and finish the job. Jody tells his father he hates hunting. His friends are his father, him and runs away. He nearly starves to death Fodder Wing, Oliver Hutto, and nearly is drowned when he faints in his Grandma Hutto, and he is in awe of Place: rickety boat, but is rescued by some sailors. the wild “Forrester Boys.” Baxter’s Island, in the untamed Antagonist: Nature Florida scrub Plot Stage 2/Body Paragraph 2 Others: Plot Stage 4/Body Paragraph 3 Conflict, Rising Action: Jody struggles against loneliness --Penny, Jody’s dad, small and and a growing understanding of the hardship of life. There is wiry but strong physically with strong character Symbol: Flag, trouble between Penny and the grown Forrester boys, who Dénouement: Jody realizes his --Ory, Jody’s mom, not very representing steal Penny’s hogs. On the way to get his hogs back from the father wanted to protect them all Forresters, Penny is bitten by a rattlesnake and almost dies. physically or emotionally normal childhood from starving. He wants his family affectionate immaturity and He kills a doe to draw out the venom, then Jody finds her fawn and brings it home. Buck Forrester comes to help with and heads home. He is reunited --Fodder Wing, the youngest innocence the work. Jody’s best friend Fodder Wing dies but leaves a with his father, who thought he Forrester boy, who is physically and probably mentally deficient but name for the fawn: Flag. Following a storm and a flood, was gone for good. many animals die of “black tongue,” Slewfoot comes back, has a strong connection with wolves attack the livestock. An incident with the Forresters animals --Grandma Hutto over a buck creates more trouble. Slewfoot attacks again and Penny goes hunting and finally kills him. Spring planting --Oliver Hutto comes; Penny injures himself (probably a hernia) and Flag --The other Forrester boys…Buck is the most important eats the new plants. Jody builds a tall fence but Flag jumps it and eats the next batch of new plants. --Twink, a girl that Oliver Hutto and Lem Hutto both claim Plot Stage 1/Body Paragraph Plot Stage 5/Body Paragraph 3 1 THEME Exposition: Introduced to Jody, Penny, and the wild Conclusion: Penny tells Jody he doesn’t Florida scrub they inhabit. Jody, a child, creates a Growing up/Coming of Age have to stay and work the farm but that he “fluttermill,” and feels life is magical and wonderful. Innocence of Youth hopes he will. He says that when life Old Slewfoot the bear attacks the farm and injures Old knocks a man down, he takes it for his Julia. Penny hunts him but is not able to kill him; Jody Family Relationships share and moves on. Jody is ready to take goes along. Jody and Penny visit the sinkhole and we The Struggle to Survive on a man’s responsibility in his family. learn that life has been hard, too hard to dig a well, Jody decides he will be lonely all his life, and they have lost many children. Jody is the only one but as a man will take it as his share and who lived. move on. CONFLICT Stated as a question and category (man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. God or fate ) 126 Will Jody find a lasting relationship to cure him of his loneliness? Will Jody mature from a boy to a man? .

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