Lekcja nieuchronności losu. Roczniak Marjorie Kinnan-Rawlings

Abstract

The article examines one of obligatory books for teenagers entitled: „The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan-Rawlings, published in the United States of America in 1938 and translated into Polish in 1947. The article considers the novel a story about family relationships, loneliness, responsibility and love (for people, animals, but especially for life and the world). Above all, The Yearling is a story about men growing up, which is exemplified by growing up of the novel’s hero, Jody Baxter, in his thirteenth year. The author of the novel tells about the most dramatic episode in Jody’s life: the death of Flag (title „yearling”) – a one-year-old deer which is the boy’s pet. The incident is interpreted by using fairy tale theories constructed by Bruno Bettelheim, Wladimir Propp and Pierre Pejú.