20. Summary of the lesson, "This is Jody's Fawn"

The lesson "This is Jody's Fawn," by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, emphasises gratitude and compassion. Jody's compassionate attempts to find and raise an orphaned fawn are the focus of the lesson's story. When Jody's father Penny was bitten by a rattlesnake, he slaughtered a doe and used its liver to remove poison from his body as a home treatment, and the fawn's mother was the one which saved his life. 

 

Jody felt bad about abandoning the fawn in the forest after its mother was killed. Jody wanted to talk to his father Penny about the fawn since it was bothering him. He did so, emphasising the importance of bringing the orphaned fawn home, as he believed it would be ungrateful to leave the fawn hungry and alone in the forest.

 

Joy's father understood his son's distress and allowed him to bring the fawn home. Jody then persuaded his mother to take the fawn home with them. Jody began his journey into the forest, with Mill-wheel's assistance, in quest of the fawn. Jody looked for the fawn for a long time and finally found it. He felt like the happiest person in the world and cuddled the fawn, carrying it in his arms and he joyously went home. Penny was happy to see his kid with the fawn. Jody then fed milk to the hungry fawn. Jody's gratitude and goodwill saved a life.