Doe Season by David Michael Kaplan Essay

There are m all minor heads presented in the short story Doe Season by David Michael Kaplan, appearing in Portable Literature Seventh Edition on pages 368 through 378, nevertheless there is altogether one overwhelming theme presented throughout the entirety of the short story. It is through the protagonist, Andy, a clubhouse-year-old tomboy, which the theme of coming of age, and the struggle closely children are forced to experience when faced with reality of having to grow up and leave childhood behind is presented.Before going on this search blow up Andy has yet to realize the truth nearly the way she behaves, she does not find it odd that she enjoys the same activities that her novice and young boys enjoy. It is only when her come made the comment Thats what the woods are all about anyway Its where the women dont want to go Kaplan 374. Andy is now embarrassed when her beget deposits this remark. She realizes that the three men with her on this catch voyage see her a s just another one of the boys rather than a young woman when Charlie and Mac begin to pick on her, proverb things ilk 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 missy Kaplan 374 referring to Andys decision to be called a boys name, Andy, as opposed to her real name Andrea.She responds simply to Charlies distrust I am a girl Kaplan 374 attempting to put a violate to Charlies teasing. In this moment Andy realizes that she is no longer a child, allowed to lick 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 significant to revealing the theme as it illustrates the initial moment of recognition by Andy that she is no longer allowed to behave homogeneous a young boy. There are also times in the story tha t seem to refute the theme, depicting the image of a nine year old girl who salve wants to be just like her father, hunting with the guys. Andy heldthe cup like her father did, not by the accost but around the rim. Kaplan 370. In this passage it is revealed that Andy was never allowed to drink coffee tree while 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 imbibition it She felt a teensy-weensy 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 precise tomboy but instead wishes to remain as so. except, this scene only develops the theme more deeply because it reveals to the reader Andys complete unknowing of the coming passage from child to young lady. I arrived at this theme after reading about the internal and external struggles that Andy experiences 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 deer she scape she runs in the opposite direction, leaving behind daddys little tomboy and becoming daddys matured girl as she runs And now 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 wind blowing through the treetops, like the ocean where her mother floated in squirt water, also calling Come in, come in, while all around her roared the mocking of the terrible, now inevitable sea. Kaplan 378