"Doe Season"

While I relate my life to "Doe Season" by David Micheal Kaplan I can find alot of similarities. Not only did I find comfort and security in the woods but also with nature. Growing up with a family that is big in hunting I know how Andy felt when he was in the woods. Nobody knows the true meaning of how beautiful nature is until they live it. To spend days in the cold with mother nature and all the mammals and insects that go along with nature. Andy feared growing up and having to explore what we call "adulthood". She looked forward to being an adult but yet at the sametime she feared the unknown. You could say the woods symbolizes "childhood" and the ocean symbolizes "adulthood". The woods is limited to what lives there and usually stays the same. On the other end of the spectrum the ocean is so wide open and changing all the time. Kind of like life. In childhood things are somewhat structed and you go into adulthood you have to make your own decisions and you have a open road infront of you! "They were the same woods that lay behind her house, and they stretch all the way to here, she thought, for miles and miles, longer than I could walk in a day, or a week even, but they are still the same woods. This thought made her feel good: it was like thinking of God: it was like thinking of the space between here and the moon: it was like thinking of all the foreign countries form her geography book where even now,..."(456) The woods gave Andy a sense of a at "home" feeling and made her feel secure. She always knew what made her feel safe! So, if you have to say what the analogy was it is that the woods and the ocean are Andy transitioning in life!