Living in The Yearling as Jody #WriteAPageADay

Those with a knack for classic Western films must know the 1946 black-and-white classic, The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck. Adapted from the Pulitzer-winning 1938 novel of the same name by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, it is one of my favourite black-and-white classic films, and I struggle to put into words how much I loved the character of Jody. He is a small boy - simple with many dreams, kind yet stubborn for his own good. 

Jody's character is sensible. He was aware of his family's struggling financial condition after failed farming attempts. He cares about his loving and doting father, respects and obeys his strict and practical mother, but simultaneously stands up for himself for the sake of the little yearling they have adopted and named Flag. He does everything to keep it- from creating boundaries to leaving it far into the woods. But nothing seemed to work, and every time it returned, only to make things worse by spoiling the new crops. If I were Jody, I would have never let Mrs Baxter kill Flag, the fawn, so I could run with it in the meadows across the horizon daily.

While I watched the film, the outstanding visuals of them playing and running together for yards excited me so much that I had always wished to be part of that film and get into Jody’s shoes to change the ending. Flag would have lived, and Mrs Baxter would have shown her affection to Jody without killing Flag.

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