Where The Red Fern Grows Movie Vs Book

In the year 1961, a 48 year old man, Wilson Rawls, published a book. This book is a very emotional book for many people. This book is known as, “Where The Red Fern Grows”. Fortunately, 13 years later, a 55 year old man, Norman Tokar, made a movie out of the book. This movie is all based on the book with good acting and a well developed pace. “Where The Red Fern Grows” is a story about a boy who wants two hunting hounds that will hunt with him. In this story, there are lots of plots and engaging parts that will keep you reading or watching. In this essay, I’ll be talking about the movie and the book. I will also be comparing and contrasting the movie and the book together and seeing which one will have a more entertaining story. “Where The Red

Once you read the book you can start to visualize that the setting they are in is described the way you would probably not assume because of the large amounts of detail. Even in the “ Where The Red Fern Grows” movie, you can actually see what the place looks like because it's a movie. In the scenes shown, the time frame could be very short to show something like a dog house or a camp. Some movies have narrators that speak for most of the movie that is being presented, but this one did not. Deep in the heart of the sparrow hawk mountains, night overtook me. There in a cave with a stream close by, I put up for the night.”( Rawls, pg 55) This is a quote from the book when Billy had to rest up in the night after he got his hounds. The place that Billy and his hounds were at was so well described and I couldn't even find this part in the movie and when I did I realized how much lack of detail it was missing out on. The very first page of the book had a scene of a dogfight with Billy in it, and in the movie there wasn’t even a dogfight. “I was walking along whistling when I heard a dog fight. At first, I paid no attention to it. After all, it wasn't anything to get excited about, just another dogfight in a residential section.”( Rawls pg.3) This part wasn’t the most important part, but it was nice to see because it’s an appealing

Having these big chunks of different events happening that are frequent, makes you keep reading and it makes you not want to stop. The movie had little plots that weren’t even fun to watch. When I watch a movie, the number one thing I care about is being engaged in what I'm watching because I don't want to sit there in pure boredom. The book and the movie both have the same story but you can tell which one you enjoyed more because you were engaged and with zero to no plots you won’t be engaged. Billy, the main character, has so many parts in the book where you would want to just keep reading and even small little events like the two screeching owls can really show feelings and the story. One plot that really stuck out to me was when one of Billy’s hounds, Ann, won a beauty contest at the championship coon hunting contest. Billy won a silver cup from this and he was very proud because at the start of the book there was a mantle on his fireplace with a silver cup on it, which he used to put his saved up money in. The thing is, there wasn’t even a beauty contest in the movie, that would have been very engaging for most people and would have shown more of a story in the movie. The next morning when I stepped outside the tent I saw men everywhere. They were combing and brushing their dogs, and getting them pruned for the beauty contest.”