... ability not only to prevail but also to survive throughout the narrative is mirrored. In the company of his grandparents the 5-year-old hero is seen as the story opens leaving his mother's funeral, the readers are informed that the characters father had died the previous year, in the mountains of Tennessee ... both spirit and body needs, wakens him to a new world that is vibrant with sisters and brothers; the quail-hen ''Min-e-lee,'', the babbling stream ''Lay-nah ", and the little deer''Awi usdi,''. His grandmother's songs help with the animation of this new universe she teaches that th...

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