Time to Grow
As children go on through life they experience knew things and go on journeys to finding out who they may or may not be. Some go on a rite of passage while others just sort of grow up knowing they will be a certain way, accommodated to certain things. In the story “Doe Season” by David Michael Kaplan, a little girl by the name of Andrea starts out as Andy but slowly realizes she is really an Andrea while on a hunting trip with her father, her rite of passage.
At the beginning of Doe Season Andy is seen by Charlie Spreun as just a little girl, not the hunting type, Andy however sees herself as a boyish girl, a daddy’s girl. Andy sees the men go hunting and wants to be a part of the experience, see what it’s all about. To her the woods they are about to go hunting in “were the same woods that lay behind her house… [which]… made her feel good: it was like thinking of God” (456). When she awakens in the morning to eat breakfast her dad stands outside while she is......
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