The setting focuses on the woods surrounding Silvia's grandmother's farm. Silvia lives in a city with her parents, but for some unknown reason she goes and stays with her grandmother for a whole year. As the story develops, we see that Sylvia has become very comfortable with the woods and the animals living in the woods. Her grandmother says, "There ain't a foot o' ground she don't know and the wild creatures count her as one o' themselves." One day as she is walking home, a young hunter with a gun meets her on the trail. At first, she is intimidated, but she soon comes to like him and is now helping him find a special bird he has been looking for. Sylvia likes the hunter, but not his gun. The gun seems to be a symbol of fear to her. It
