Family Pictures: The Doe Summary

Judd wakes as an eleven-year-old child, in High Point Farms' large house. He hears a sound he does not recognize. Again, he tells the reader of the many animals that share High Point Farm with the Mulvaneys; including, a cat, Little Boots, who shares his bed this night. Judd runs to the window to find a group of deer below his bedroom window, headed for the pasture pond. Judd runs out of his bedroom and out the back door in order to get a closer look.

Judd finds the deer silently drinking from the pond and becomes aware of the beauty of nature, of the absolute silence of the night. Judd can hear everything around him and is suddenly aware of all the animals in the area, of his own heartbeat. Suddenly, the deer become aware of...