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    Jody finds a fawn in the forest after its mother is killed by Jody's father to extract venom from a rattlesnake bite. Jody is worried for the orphaned fawn and seeks his father's permission to bring it home and care for it. His father agrees it would be ungrateful to leave the fawn to starve after it lost its mother to save his life. Jody finds the fawn and brings it home, relieved to save it.

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    Jody finds a fawn in the forest after its mother is killed by Jody's father to extract venom from a rattlesnake bite. Jody is worried for the orphaned fawn and seeks his father's permission to bring it home and care for it. His father agrees it would be ungrateful to leave the fawn to starve after it lost its mother to save his life. Jody finds the fawn and brings it home, relieved to save it.

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    This Is Jody'S Fawn: by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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    THIS IS JODY’S

    FAWN
    By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    About the Author

    ◦ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in


    rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her
    best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an
    orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1939 and was
    later made into a movie of the same name. This lesson is a small
    extract of this book.
    Summary of the lesson
    In this story, Jody’s father is bitten by a rattlesnake. He quickly kills a doe and uses its heart and liver to
    draw out the poison. Jody wonders what will happen to the little fawn left without its mother.
    Jody cannot not forget the incident. He loves the little fawn. His father, Penny lay in bed. Jody enquires
    about his health. Penny says he has escaped death narrowly. He feels proud of his son for his help. He
    owes his life to the doe whom he killed to press out the snake poison from his body.
    Jody is worried about the little fawn. He wants to find the fawn and bring it home. Penny allows the boy to
    save the little animal. It would be ungrateful to leave the fawn to starve. Doc Wilson also supports Jody.
    So Jody sets out to the forest.
    Mill wheel accompanies him but Jody sends him back as he doesn’t want anyone to share the private
    moment between him and the fawn. He finally finds it and is overjoyed and relieved. He carries it for
    sometime and it starts following him after he leaves it on the ground. He feeds the fawn his share of milk
    back home.
    Conclusion of the lesson
    ◦The story is a great lesson that teaches us
    about human consciousness and how
    sensitive children are with their pure hearts
    and loving nature.
    Quiz Time
    ◦ REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
    ◦ “We took its mother, and it wasn’t to blame.”
    ◦ Who said this to whom and why?
    ◦ Fill in the blanks
    ◦ _____________has gone thieving elsewhere. But wasn’t it a close shave?!
    Boy, you’ve got me _____________ in.
    ◦ Thoughts to ponder
    Animal organs are used as medicines to save human lives.
    ◦ Do you think Jody’s father could have thought of some other remedy instead of killing the doe?
    ◦ If you were in Jody’s place, how would you feel once you find the fawn in the forest?
    Answers
    ◦ 1. Jody said this to Penny Baxter, his father, as he was asking permission
    from his father to raise the fawn at home.
    ◦ 2. Old Death
    ◦ 4. hemmed
    ◦ 5. According to me, Penny Baxter could have thought an alternative, but they
    didn’t have any time to think as his life was in danger and this could have also
    been the only cure for snake bites at that time.
    ◦ I would feel extremely excited, relieved, and fortunate if I was in his place.
    New words in the lesson
    ◦ Acorns- small brown nuts
    ◦ Delirious- extremely excited
    ◦ Convulsion- shiver
    ◦ Sleek- smooth and shiny
    ◦ Hoist- pull up higher
    ◦ Light headed- unable to think clearly
    ◦ Balk / Baulk- unwilling to do something
    ◦ Romp- play
    ◦ Gourd- a roughly shaped bottle

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