Where The Red Fern Grow: A Classic

I readed the most touching book named “Where The Red Fern Grows” by an author that I really like named Wilson Rawls. The way the book was real touching was the way how the author shows the love between a boy and his dogs. Like the way the boy will help his dogs get better when they are hurt and how the boy was protect his dog through anything. I thank Wilson Rawls was trying to show the way that people while do for the thing that they hold the closes to them like the way it is shown in the book “Where The Red Fern Grows”.

This may be a minor event in the story but is evidence of Fern finding her purpose and discovering a small piece of who she is fate of her life and the others around her. Both texts have significant impacts on young readers as they influence them to find their purpose in life and understand how fate has lead them to who they are today, and who they can be tomorrow.

     I cannot remember the first time I read Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls. I read it at about age ten, and I have lost count of how many times I read it since. It was a period in my life when childhood was nearly over, but adolescence had not yet set in, and it was a time when animals were my greatest love.

As a young adult, Wilson Rawls traveled all over the country, taking a variety of jobs. On the way, he wrote as often as he was able to, and completed up to five novels. Since he was ashamed of his spelling and punctuation, he didn’t show the novels to anyone. Rawls's dream of being a writer would not die. He told his wife, Sophie and she encouraged him to rewrite one of the stories. The one he chose to rewrite was Where the Red Fern Grows.

George Saunder’s “Puppy” is a story about two women; Marie and Callie. The story begins with Marie taking her kids to adopt a puppy. In the past, Marie was always the caretaker of her kid’s pets. Mainly because she was worried they might get bitten, “This time would be different, she was sure of it. The kids would care for this pet themselves since a puppy wasn’t scaly and didn’t bite” (188). Marie tries to give her kids the things she didn’t have growing up. Marie wasn’t raised in a loving environment, “At least she’d never locked one of them in a closet (a closet!) while entertaining a literal ditchdigger in the parlor” (188). However, Marie just comes off as a helicopter mom, “Marie had learned over the summer by studying the Noble Baker manual while Josh was asleep” (188). Upon arriving at Callie’s, Marie notices the poverty Callie lives in. She also finds Callie’s son tied to a tree in her backyard. This causes Marie to decline Callie’s puppy. Callie is now torn because she knows what her husband would do with the puppy, so instead she does it herself, “Well, what did it matter, drowned in a bag or starved in the corn? This way Jimmy wouldn’t have to do it” (191). Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” is also about two women and brief glimpses into different parts of their lives. The story starts with how they met in the orphanage. At first Twyla didn’t want anything to do with Roberta, “It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the morning – it

is the story of a boy, his two hounds (which he named Old Dan and

The idyllic nature of one’s dream compels them forward, albeit an almost impossible one. The continual use of vivid imagery greatly immerses the reader; the reader could see George and Lennie’s “little house and a couple of acres” (14) and smell “the bacon and the hams” (57). Steinbeck appeals to the senses to show the alluring qualities of their dream. George’s repetitive depictions of their own land shows the importance of their dreams; without it, there would be no plot, no story, no desire to progress. It would be a story of two nondescript men, wandering aimlessly across the vast American west. Steinbeck chooses to incorporate imagery throughout the story to emphasize what the fruits of one’s labor will result in. The dreamlike setting of George and Lennie’s farm shows the impossibility of it, as a place that perfect would not be in the mortal world.

“We the Animals” by Justin Torres, takes place in an upstate New York town with three half breed brothers, their Puerto Rican father along with their white mother. Their parents were overworked and absent from the kid’s lives’ most of time and lack to provide food, companionship and safety. Throughout the book, Torres uses brief, evocative descriptions to create a picture that can interpret hidden meanings from a child’s perspective. Not to mention he describes his characters with animal-like qualities, animals such as, raccoons, geese, and wolfs.

Many books have movies based on them. “Where The Red Fern Grows” is a very heartwarming book and movie. This film and book is about a boy in the Ozarks that is obsessed with coons, dogs, and hunting. There are many things that happened in the book that is displayed on screen for example, the main character, Billy is the oldest sibling in the book and movie. Billy saves up money to buy two dogs. Billy takes the both of them on adventures, until the one adventure takes a fatal turn.

The book Wildlife by Cynthia Defelice is an outstanding book. It is a fiction book which means that it did not happen in real life. This is about a kid named Erik that found out his mom and dad had to get shipped to a foreign country to serve and fight for their country. He must go live with his grandma and grandpa for a long time. He does not want to go but his parents have nowhere else to send him. A dog then shows up at Erik’s grandmas steps and Erik wants to keep it. He then runs away with the dog and goes hunting with it and his grandma and grandpa worry about him very much. He then comes back to the house after being out so long and the dog’s owner comes back and gets the dog.

     There are two main characters, George and Lennie. Lennie is a massive man with incredible strength, but has a childs mind. George is a fairly sized man who is not incredibly strong, but has good common sense. What one man lacks, the other man makes up for. It is a perfect example of how

Within the small, hallow space between Greed and Sloth, Discontent lies, dormant and unrecognized. They prey upon those weary, malcontented souls who have nought to do but ruminate upon what they do not have, rather than upon the great many things they do. And in a decrepit shack in the Evergreens, Discontent lures those who would decide to feed off its disquieting presence. They first hear the sounds of a fire roaring, burning, consuming. Then, they will feel their arms and legs grow heavy and weak, straining for every modicum of movement. Finally, they will see their greatest desire, whether it be power, or wealth, or affection, just beyond the line of trees, and they will be helpless to resist the thrall. They will travel for miles and

experiences a realization about life when there is an incident with a dog. The narrator then expresses his

I have never considered that a book about a dog could be so appealing and full of deep thoughts. But I changed my viewpoint after reading the autobiographical novel “Marley & Me” written by John Grogan which depicts an astonishing story about the neurotic and loyal, clumsy and loving dog named Marley. In fact, as the author mentioned in some interviews, he intended to write the “dog story”, but soon after he realized that it was impossible to do so without including the family life [2]. That is why the title “Marley & Me” encapsulates the main topic of the book such as the relationship between a human and a pet. To start with let me introduce main characters: John, Jenny, and Marley.

For him this life is so enjoyable because he have friend like Curly. But one he hates is when his friend was killed by the bad dog named Spitz. Buck hides his bad feelings for Spitz but he tried to move on with this problem. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of action and danger. Buck fights for his survival to live again in peaceful life and not a danger life. He doesn’t think that he will die in this trouble. When he already escaped on this kidnapper he went again to his place and a tourist came. This person because a dog like Buck opens his heart to tour this person .He loved this person and now he feels that he is not anymore alone in this place. Buck hugs this person and felt so delightful.