Doe Season
"Doe Season" is a story that uses symbolisms and parallels to relate the turbulent and confusing transition of a young girl going through an initiation of a child into adulthood. Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects is how the author uses the ocean and the forest to symbolize manhood and womanhood. The woods relate to the comfortable feelings that Andy has towards her father and manhood. Andy has spent her childhood as a tomboy and her Dad’s sidekick, so the woods and her father represent something that makes her feel safe during this time of inevitable change in her life. "They were the same woods that lay behind her house and they stretched all the way to here, she thought, for miles
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Doe Season, David Kaplain, empty moving, dying mother,
Approximate Word count = 481
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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