Where The Red Fern Grows

In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy Colman, our country boy devoted to his dogs, has gone through very tough times to get to where he is now. He worked very hard for a long time to get his dogs. With his dogs, he had gone out to hunt many times and had lots of adventures and relationships out in the wild. Old Dan had the guts to fight the savage animals with broad muscles and big teeth. Little Ann had the brains to be smart about hunting coons even though she is small for a hound. But because of how good his dogs were at hunting, some people were jealous. Not many people are very good at hunting with dogs. Others were just making fun of him because he was different from everybody. Even nature took its course on Billy. But that did not stop Billy

from his love of his dogs and hunting.
All of you would know some people in the world are not nice. The people can make fun of other people. Gangs gang up against people with bad intentions. Billy has encountered a bunch of them on his trip to town. When Billy first got his dogs, people started making fun of him because he looked different from everybody and he had his dogs. A teacher laughed at him because he went on the slide and fell face first into the ground. Some women and other people snickered because he was missing his shoes and he looked funny. After Billy got his dogs, some gang called him names and tried to mess with his dogs. Well, that got Billy all riled up. A big fight took place and in no time, the marshal came and saved Billy from getting beaten up. No one in town ever messed with Billy after that incident happened.
A lot of people underestimated Billy and his dog’s hunting skills. One of those people was Rubin Pritchard. He was born in a family of no-good people with his Mom and Dad. Over the years, he has become super competitive, big and strong. Not one person has ever challenged him except for our guy, Billy. Rubin didn’t believe in the slightest bit of Billy’s hunting skills so he made a bet that Billy can tree a specific coon, big and fast. Rubin still didn’t believe that Billy was good at hunting when Billy treed the coon so he made Billy kill it but Billy balked. Not long before Billy refused to kill the coon, a fight sprung out. Rubin had Billy down not long before Old Blue showed up. This dog clashed with Billy’s dogs while Rubin was hitting Billy in the face, but unfortunately, Old Blue and Rubin underestimated Billy and his dogs, because when the commotion subsided, Old Blue was injured and Rubin is dead. Billy hasn’t interfered with the Pritchards ever since Rubin died.
As you all know, nature has beautiful qualities.

Some are gentle and nice. But some can be very dangerous, like animals and weather. Even when Billy is hunting, nature sometimes becomes dangerous. When Billy was hunting, he was intent on catching a specific type of animal called a coon. Even though they are hunted very oftenly for their skins, coons are known to be very smart and can be very vicious when provoked and attacked. On every racoon that Billy had killed, there was not a time when his dogs did not fight the coon and come away with no wounds. The weather plays a role in the deaths of a million lives. Over the years, lives are lost by the extreme weather just outside their home. The weather has affected Billy and his dogs greatly before too. During when Billy hunted the wild coons, Little Ann almost lost her life in the winter in a long, icy river if it wasn’t for Billy’s brain. Later, on another occasion both dogs have almost lost their lives in a torrential blizzard. The snow storms during the winter also slowed Billy down when he was hunting for glory, but it did not stop him from catching those coons. It even didn’t stop him from getting to the camp hosted by the annual coon hunting competition and earning first

place
But nature now had taken a lasting effect on Billy and his dogs for one last time. Near the end of the book, a big battle occurred between a mountain lion and Billy and his dogs. It was brutal, with claws and teeth tearing at each other and in the end, the mountain lion died and the fight left Old Dan with extremely fatal wounds that even Billy’s family can’t fix completely. A few days later, Old Dan died from his wounds and Little Ann lost the will to live. A few days after Old Dan died, Little Ann also died by his grave. Billy seems to just can’t get over the loss of his dogs, but he learned a lesson anyways when he was ready to leave. When Billy was about to leave for town life in the spring, he saw a red fern between the graves of Old Dan and Little Ann. Billy knew the red fern came from an angel because the dogs were very close to each other. That’s why from now on, he believed in the legend of the sacred red fern.