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    Where the Red Fern Grows by Fgosal Where the Red Fern Grows tells about a man named Billy Colman, whose mind drifted away back on his boyhood memories when he got his dogs. The young Billy was a boy who wanted two coon hunting dogs of his own more than anything in the world. He worked very hard by selling wares and saved money to pursue his dreams. After two years, he finally had enough money for two dogs. Billy made a difficult journey to get his dogs. He loved his dogs very much and spent

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    There is a saying, “a dog is a man's’ best friend”. In the book Where The Red Fern Grows,by Wilson Rawls, Billy Coleman is a young boy who wants nothing other than two Redbone coonhounds and to hunt in the Ozark Mountains with them. Through his determination, he works up money buy the pups, but he is faced with many struggles along the road. His determination, the will power and strong heart to make it through the struggles, made him the boy he is now. Over all, Billy Coleman and his dogs face many

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    In Where the Red Fern Grows, the story is told of how young Billy has worked so hard to save up, buy, and then train his dogs. Billy has trained his dogs so well that his grandfather believes that he is good enough to be entered into a hunting contest. He asks billy what he thinks of this idea, and Billy is very excited. When Billy tells his grandpa that he wants to be entered in the contest, his grandpa has a very emotional reaction described by Wilson Rawls through a simile. Wilson Rawls uses the

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    Where the Red Fern Grows by Fgosal Where the Red Fern Grows tells about a man named Billy Colman, whose mind drifted away back on his boyhood memories when he got his dogs. The young Billy was a boy who wanted two coon hunting dogs of his own more than anything in the world. He worked very hard by selling wares and saved money to pursue his dreams. After two years, he finally had enough money for two dogs. Billy made a difficult journey to get his dogs. He loved his dogs very much and spent almost

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    “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” said Colin Powell. This quote is saying that you can’t achieve a goal without trying. In the book, Where the Red Fern Grows, the author, Wilson Rawls, shows the theme as hard work pays off. From chapter 5 in the story it says “A warm puppy tongue caressed my sore foot.” This Shows that he is a hard worker through the fact that his foot is sore from walking so long. This ties back to the theme because

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    Where the Red Fern Grows        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.   Where the Red Fern Grows is a novel about a young boy and his two dogs, but to an animal-lover, it is much more. The story is told

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    make it happen.” In order to achieve your goals, you must work for it and be determined to get them. You can stay home and dream about your goals, or you can go out and actually take a risk. This quote shows the theme of determination in Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls. The theme of determination is shown in section one of this book. On pages 20 through 21 when Billy worked consistently for two hard years collecting money to buy pups. This shows the theme of determination because

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    The novel, Where the Red Fern Grows, written by Wilson Rawls, tells the story of how young Billy Coleman wanted coon hunting dogs, so he works hard to achieve his debt (money). Once he gets enough money he finally gets the dogs from Grandpa. With his dogs with him, they become the best coon hunters in the Ozark hills. Their hunting influenced themselves to join the coon hunt where they won the prize and the cup. As the dogs hunt, they encountered a mountain lion which Old Dan and Little Ann fought

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    One of the most memorable being, Where the Red Fern Grows By Wilson Rawls. Up until then, we listened to books like My Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, all light hearted and humorous. Though Where the Red Fern Grows was not unsettling or overly depressing, it was off beat from the others. For about two months we followed Billy and his two coonhounds

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    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”. The

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