Doe Season

Andy was a young and bright little girl who loved the thought of going out in the woods to go hunting with her father. The woods made her feel safe and at peace. It was somewhere she could go and still be a child. Andy had a way with animals, almost like they felt like she was one of them. Her father told the other men, "Animals-I don't know how she does it, but they come right up to her." (Kaplan 457) But, it was the moment when she actually shot the deer that everything seemed to change. She felt as though she had taken something from this poor helpless deer that she could never give back. When she knew that the deer was out there running around, "She couldn't bear to think of the doe in pain and frightened." While walking through the woods, Andy had thoughts in her head about the ocean, making it seem she was very frightened of it. "If you walked in it, something could pull you under and you'd never be seen again." (Kaplan 459) She knew that her mother was not afraid of being in the ocean because she was out swimming in it while Andy watched her from the sand. When the men were about to cut open the deer, the thoughts of the scary ocean came flooding back to her. She heard her mom yelling, "Come in, come in, while all around her roared the mocking of the terrible, now inevitable, sea." (Kaplan 467) In this very moment, she had to make the transition from a young, immature child to a mature adult.