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

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