Doe Season

In the story "Doe Season" written by David Michael Kaplan is a story about a girl named Andy and her first experience with doe hunting with her father. Andy describes the wood as "always the same." This phrase really means she is feeling safe there. Just like being a child, things are really don't change hat much and she feels safe and sheltered. After she shoots the doe, it makes her see things in a different light. How her life is started to change and feel more scary as she will continue to grow up. Andy describes the ocean as "hug and empty, yet always moving". Much like the woods compared to her childhood the ocean is compared to her adulthood. She's not quite sure what the future holds. Her options are open and when she decides what her life will be then and only then will she not be so frightened of the ocean, and the changes that come with growing into an adult.