The yellow shank represents Doug’s situation in Schmidt’s novel Okay for Now. When Doug is interrogating his dad about the one-hundred dollars and signed baseball, he can be compared to the yellow shank in Audubon's painting. Doug knew that he could be hurt, but “he’s going to do it anyway” (Schmidt 179). Doug is stepping into the unknown and that there is no going back, just like the yellow shank is pushing off over the river. Doug needs to be in the transitory state between the light in dark like the shank needs to be in the picture. Doug’s valiant act represents the next phase of his life and pushing off into the unknown.
2. Of Mice and Men IQC
Steinbeck implies that one of the feasible possibilities of not being welcomed by others is
