"You'll grow out of your tom-boy phase soon enough sweetie" is something millions of little girls around the world are fed up with hearing from adults trying to determine their identity for them. In writer David Michael Kaplan's award-winning fiction short story "Doe Season," a girl named Andy struggling with just that in the 1980's finds herself grappling with the two worlds of man and womanhood while on a hunting trip with her father, fathers friend Charlie, and Charlie's son Mac. Some children and adults alike believe in the notion that breaking gender roles is a way to find your identity without society's input, but Kaplan uses rhetorical appeals to infers the inevitability of gender roles through his use of magic realism and word choice
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Logos refers to the author appealing to the readers logical side, bringing into question the logic of a situation. Magic realism refers to a realistic scene in which a surreal fantasy element is naturally blended in. Early in the story, Andy's father mentions how Andy has a unique quality about her with animals. When Charlie Spoon questions why Andy even came on the trip in the first place, her father informs Spoon that "she'll bring good luck" on the hunting trip, and that "animals-I don't know how she does it, but they come right up to her" (Kaplan 140). Traditionally, animals wouldn't just blindly walk up to a person, especially if it's a wild animal, so Andy's fathers claim aligns with magic realism that hints at Andy's feminine nature. In an article title "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, the gender roles that Andy's father touches on are also acknowledged through Slaughters observations of the seemingly impossibility of balancing work, a presumably male area, and family, a presumably nurturing and female area. The nurturing quality assigned to women through gender roles is seen in Andy's experiences with animals despite her hesitation to accept the world of womanhood she is becoming a part
Logos refers to the author appealing to the readers logical side, bringing into question the logic of a situation. Magic realism refers to a realistic scene in which a surreal fantasy element is naturally blended in. Early in the story, Andy's father mentions how Andy has a unique quality about her with animals. When Charlie Spoon questions why Andy even came on the trip in the first place, her father informs Spoon that "she'll bring good luck" on the hunting trip, and that "animals-I don't know how she does it, but they come right up to her" (Kaplan 140). Traditionally, animals wouldn't just blindly walk up to a person, especially if it's a wild animal, so Andy's fathers claim aligns with magic realism that hints at Andy's feminine nature. In an article title "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, the gender roles that Andy's father touches on are also acknowledged through Slaughters observations of the seemingly impossibility of balancing work, a presumably male area, and family, a presumably nurturing and female area. The nurturing quality assigned to women through gender roles is seen in Andy's experiences with animals despite her hesitation to accept the world of womanhood she is becoming a part