Jody struggles with strained relationships, hunger, death of beloved friends, and the capriciousness of nature through a catastrophic flood. The book explores Jody's life as he matures along with Flag. He later learns that Fodder-Wing named it Flag. Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt the fawn and it becomes his constant companion. This saves Penny's life but leaves an orphaned fawn. Penny shoots a doe, in order to use its liver to draw out the snake's venom. While Jody and his father Penny are out searching for the stolen stock, Penny is bitten in the arm by a rattlesnake. (While the Forresters are presented as a disreputable clan, the disabled youngest brother, Fodder-Wing, is a close friend to Jody.) The Forresters steal the Baxters' hogs. Later the Baxters and the rowdy Forresters get in a fight about the bear and continue to fight about nearly anything. He has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember, but his mother says that they barely have enough food to feed themselves, let alone a pet.Ī subplot involves the hunt for an old bear named Slewfoot that randomly attacks the Baxter livestock. His mother has difficulty bonding with the boy. His parents had six other children before him, but they died in infancy. Young Jody Baxter lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra "Penny" Baxter, on a small farm in the backwoods of central Florida in the years following the Civil War. He advised her to write about what she knew from her own life, and The Yearling was the result. She had submitted several projects to Perkins for his review, and he rejected them all.
Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. The book has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian, and 22 other languages. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1938, when it sold more than 250,000 copies. It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. The Yearling is a novel by American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, published in March 1938.
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