The Yearling Essay

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The Yearling In The Yearling, by Marjorie Rawlings, a young boy named Jody learns that responsibility can help him take care of his needs and other’s needs. Jody’s sense of responsibility helped him to enjoy the fawn. Jody learned a new sense of responsibility that helped him work with his family to survive in the backwoods of Florida. This sense of responsibility also taught him how to deal outside interference while helping with his family’s survival. The Yearling, by Marjorie Rawlings, illustrates how Jody’s sense of responsibility helped him to resolve his conflict between meeting his own need to raise the fawn, and meeting his family’s need for survival. Jody’s sense of responsibility helped him to enjoy his experiences in raising the fawn. Jody made sure the fawn had a nice place to sleep by making him a bed in his father’s shed giving him a sense that the fawn needed him. Jody made sure the fawn got exercise by often racing and having fun with him. The fawn went just about everywhere with Jody giving Jody a sense of friendship. All these experiences with the fawn showed Jody how you can be responsible and still have fun. Jody’s sense of responsibility helped him to cooperate with helping his family to survive in the backwoods of Florida. Jody would take the fawn with him to the sink hole to gather water for his family. Jody often goofed around before, but now would help his father plow the fields. He would wonder off occasionally, but now was able to help his father actually do the hunt instead of just carrying the powder horn. Jody helped his family in many ways now, taking on more responsibility that helped with their survival. Jody’s sense of responsibility helped him to deal with the fawn’s interference with his family’s survival. The fawn would bother the family while they were trying to work, so Jody would put the

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