Jody

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Jody Baxter lives with his parents on a subsistence farm in the Florida scrub.

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His only contribution to the household is Jody’s happiness.

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When Flag is on the verge of becoming a yearling, Jody’s father says, “He’ll be like a person standin’ on the state line.

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After Flag raids the cornfield on which the Baxters’ survival depends, Jody is ordered to shoot him.

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The novel’s title applies to Jody, too, who is similarly poised between boyhood and manhood until Flag’s death pushes him over his own state line.

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