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Creative Writing: Red Fern South Dakota

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Red Fern South Dakota has always been a quiet town, where only the trees made a sound when the wind blew, and when the dogs barked when someone drove by. A girl about five years old by the name of Jordan grew up on a little farm two miles away from Red Fern; her mother, Kristina, had a tough time keeping a sound eye on her. Amidst the cow lot and lake beds she was constantly somewhere unknown; Jordan would be under the bed, in the toy box, and outside in the hay bales. Jordan loved being outside. She found herself making tea in an old coffee can, the tea consisted of grass, berries from evergreen tree, and even rocks. She would stir it together with a stick, until the water turned a pear green. Jordan would filter the green mixture through …show more content…

“Oh, there you are” her mother would reply Jordan would giggle, then run back out the back door with no shoes on. For a few days Jordan came inside the house limping on one foot, crying to her mother, “Mommy, I got cactus stuck in my foot” her mother would sit there with tweezers, pulling out each spine from the heel of her foot Jordan flinching each time she yanked one out. As soon as her mother was done, she'd look at her mother thankful she could help her, but still a tear still rolled down her face onto the floor from the surging pain now in her foot. Her mother would look at her in the eyes and repeat “You better learn how to wear your shoes” Jordan would nod, then limp off to her room to take a nap. One day, Jordan opened her eyes, she looked out the door and found her mother to be in the yard digging up cactus in the yard. Jordan made sure to put on some shoes and ran outside hiding around the corner of the house. Her mother saw her peeking around the corner of her house and said “Jordan, do you want to come help me?” Jordan smiled disappearing back around the house. She ran around the other side of the house trying to make her mother to jump. Kristina would giggle and say “Get over here you little turd” Jordan would run up to her mother, hug her, then look up at her saying “I love you mom” as her mother looked down …show more content…

Her neighbor Gerald a friendly old man would ask her to bale hay for him every year due to he was getting old. Gerald would pay her $1.08 for each bale of hay she made. Gerald would watch, smiling and waving, then he would head home when he knew she was doing her job correctly. When Jordan was done, she would call him asking if that’s all he had for her to do. He was blessed to have her help, but just when she hopped in her pickup to leave. He would always come over thanking her, wishing there would be a bigger amount of hard working, grateful kids like her. On August twenty fourth, her birthday, he handed her a fifty dollar bill. She sat speechless looking at the bill as she had never seen one before. She smiled getting out of the pickup to hug Gerald. Jordan always looked up to him, she thought he was the kindest person she had ever met. Although she came home every afternoon from working for different neighbors either picking square bail’s with the Johnsons to planting gardens with Mrs. Rose she loved every bit of it. Jordan grew to love her parents and the people in her small community as if they were her own

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