Traveling Through The Dark

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Term Paper Title	Traveling Through The Dark
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.45

Traveling through the Dark
William Stafford

     In this eloquent poem, Stafford tells the story of a driver and decision.  The driver, who is the speaker in the story, is driving a mountain road at night.  He comes upon a dead deer.  He stops and gets out of the car, confident that he should roll the animal over the edge of the cliff into the canyon in order to clear the road for other drivers;  " It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead."
     However, when he gets to the deer and touches it, he finds that there is an unborn fawn that is still alive; "… her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting, alive, still, never to be born."  The man then seems to have doubts about what is the right thing to do.  Should he do what he first thought-push the deer over the cliff to avoid more accidents?  Or is there any way to try and save the fawn?  "Beside that mountain road I hesitated."  He ultimately decides to push the doe off the cliff.
     The mess...

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