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Chapter 6 - This is Jody's Fawn Exercise 90

Solution 1

Jody's father had been bitten by a rattlesnake.

Solution 2

The doe's liver and heart were used to draw out the poison from Penny.

Solution 3

Jody wanted to bring the fawn home because he felt that they had killed the doe for their purpose and the fawn had been orphaned for no fault of its own. He kept thinking about the hungry and scared fawn out there alone. Since he was a big boy he did not need to drink milk so he could feed it to the fawn. He felt that it was their responsibility to take care of the fawn or else it would starve to death.

Solution 4

Jody knew that the fawn was a male because the spots on its body were all in a line. His father had told him that on the body of a doe-fawn, the spots are in different directions.

Chapter 6 - This is Jody's Fawn Exercise 91

Solution 1

Jody did not want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. One reason was that if the fawn was dead or could not be found, he did not want Mill-wheel to see his disappointment. The second reason was that if they found the fawn, then the meeting would be so lovely and secret that he could not endure to share it.

Solution 2

Mill-wheel did not want to leave Jody alone as he was afraid that Jody could lose his way or get bitten by a snake.

Chapter 6 - This is Jody's Fawn Exercise 94

Solution 1

Penny allowed Jody to go find the fawn and raise it because it seemed ungrateful to him to leave the fawn to starve. He agreed with Jody that they had killed the doe for their purpose and the fawn was orphaned for no fault of its own. They could not let the fawn starve. They felt a responsibility towards it.

Solution 2

Penny had killed the doe to save his life. Therefore, in regard for what the doe had done, its fawn needed to be taken care of and saved from starvation. It would be ungrateful to leave it alone. This was what Doc Wilson meant when he said that nothing in the world came for free.

Solution 3

After Jody accepted the responsibility for looking after the fawn, he cared for it like its own mother would. When he first found it he reached out one hand and laid it on its soft neck. He then put both his arms around its body. While taking it home, he shielded its face from the sharp vines. He carried it in his arms most of the way even though he was tired. On reaching home, he gave it the milk that was meant for him. When he saw that the fawn did not drink the milk kept in the gourd, he fed it with his own hands.  Hence, one can say that Jody carried out his responsibility quite well.

Solution 4

When Jody's mother heard that he was going to bring the fawn home, she was a little surprised and asked Jody what fawn he was talking about. He then told her that it was the fawn whose mother they had killed to save Penny. She gasped and was not to happy with the idea. She helplessly informed him that they had nothing else to feed it and so he would have to sacrifice the milk they gave him for the fawn. She reacted this way because she was not present at the site where Penny had been bitten, where they had killed the doe. She had not seen the fawn and therefore, was not as concerned as Penny and Jody. Besides they did not have too many things to feed the fawn on in their home and she may have been worried about how she would feed the fawn.

Solution 5

Jody did not want to scare the fawn away. That is why he first stroked its neck slowly, and then put his arms around it. Then, he picked it up and carried it through the thick bushes. He tried to shield its face from the sharp vines. He stopped to rest on his way home. On walking a little, he saw the fawn  following  him. After this, he would either carry the fawn, or put it down so that it would follow him by itself. When they reached home, it refused to climb the stairs. He then picked it up and took it inside the house.

Solution 6

Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. When he stroked its neck, the touch made him 'delirious'. His heart thumped with the marvel of its acceptance of him .When he realised that it was his fawn now, he was 'light- headed with his joy'. When he finally brought the fawn into the house, Penny thought that" the boy's eyes were as bright as the fawn's".

Solution 7

Jody skimmed the cream into a jug and poured the milk into a small gourd. When Jody gave the milk to the fawn in the gourd, it butted it suddenly, smelling the milk and not knowing what to do with it. Jody saved it from spilling precariously over the floor. It was then that Jody dipped his fingers in the milk and pushed them into the fawn's soft wet mouth so that it would drink the milk. It sucked greedily. When Jody withdrew his fingers it bleated frantically and butted him. He dipped his fingers again and as the fawn sucked he lowered them slowly into the milk. As long as he held his fingers below the level of the milk the fawn was content. The last of the milk soon vanished in a swirl of foam and gurgling.

Solution 8

The deer is a wild animal. It is used to a life in the forest. When the fawn reached Jody's home, it did not follow Jody up the steps because of the strangeness of the house and the steps and everything. This is similar to its reaction to the milk in the gourd. It simply did not know what to do.

Chapter 6 - This is Jody's Fawn Exercise 95

Solution 1

(i) Penny asked his son if he really wanted it.

(ii) Mill-wheel asked if he would ride back with him.

(iii) He asked Mill-wheel if he thought the fawn was still there.

(iv) He asked Mill-wheel if he would help him find him.

(v) He asked if it was up there that Pa had got bitten by the snake

Solution 2

(i) Intransitive

(ii) Intransitive

(iii) Transitive

(iv) Transitive

(v) Transitive

(vi) Intransitive, Transitive

(vii) Transitive

(viii) Transitive

(ix) Transitive

(x) Transitive

(xi) Transitive

(xii) Intransitive

(xiii) Transitive

(xiv) Transitive

(xv) Intransitive