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The Yearling

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Yearling is a 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, which was made into a 1946 film (directed by Clarence Brown, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman), a 1983 anime series (Kojika Monogatari) and a 1994 TV series (starring Peter Strauss and Jean Smart).Ezra Baxter (Peck, Strauss) and his wife Ora (Wyman, Smart) live on a hardscrabble farm in the backwoods of central Florida, along with their preteen son Jody, in 1878. Ezra is a loving father but Ora, haunted by the memory of her other children who died in infancy (six in the novel, three in the film), has a hard time showing affection for her son.Jody, who has pestered his parents for a pet, finally gets a deer, with the support of his father and the grudging acceptance of his mother. Jody forms a deep bond with his little "yearling", whom he names Flag. But when Flag starts getting into the family's crops, he becomes a serious problem for the Baxters, who need to harvest their crops to survive.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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A Boy and His X
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A Boy and His X: A boy and his fawn.
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Circling Vultures
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Circling Vultures: How Jody finds the fawn. The vultures are circling over its mother.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Jody returns, but Flag is dead and the novel implies that Ezra might not recover from his illness.
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Adaptational Attractiveness
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Adaptational Attractiveness: The Baxter parents are described as being rather plain in the book, but are portrayed by two attractive young actors in the movie.
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Bears Are Bad News
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Bears Are Bad News: Old Slewfoot the bear will sometimes eat the Baxters' livestock.
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Bambification
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Bambification: Jody and his pet deer, whom he names Flag. As per the trope, Flag is a darling and deeply lovable at first. Then the trope is subverted when Flag grows to eat the Baxters out of house and home, becoming too dangerous to keep and too tame to drive away. Killing the deer symbolizes the end of Jody's innocence.
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