The book Where The Fern Grows was written in 1961 and the movie first came out in 1974. The book was written by Wilson Rawls. The movie was directed by Norman Tokarr. If you've ever watched the movie you could tell that it was made a long time ago. If you haven't seen or read Where the Red Fern Grows you might not know that it is one of the saddest books/movies you might ever see. To begin with, in the book, this boy Billy has always wanted dogs but they weren't very rich and couldn't afford coon

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 has worked very hard for a long time to get his dogs. With his dogs, he had gone hunting many times and had lots of adventures out in the wild. 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 justing making fun of him.     One of those people was Rubin

The grit in Billy’s mouth felt like a whole beach just washed into his mouth, skinning the salmon he knows that all his determination will be worth it. In time when he will have his own two hunting dogs. In the novel Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls expresses how Billy shows an enormous amount of determination especially for a kid of his age. Billy worked for about 2 years he never gave up and pushed through his hardships. With only one goal in site he set out and was determined to get his

A wetland is an area where the land is saturated with water and has wetland plants. Wetlands are important because they reduce the damages of flooding. The Everglades is a very large shallow wetland in south Florida. Tens of thousands years ago, glacial retreat submerged portions of the Florida peninsula and water level rose. Today, water discharges from Orlando through the Kissimmee River and to Lake Okeechobee. Lake Okeechobee is a large and shallow lake. Water discharges in sheet flow from Lake

As Foster claims, geography is a setting that defines a character or plot. In Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows the story would not have happened if it weren't for the setting. Billy Colman is a young boy that lives in northeastern Oklahoma deep in the Ozark Mountains. Billy wants two hunting dogs which he ends up buying him self and grows extremely attached to them. If Billy had lived in a big city he would not have been so obsessed with hunting and the plot of the story would be very different

The book Where the Red Fern Grows was written by Wilson, Rawls published in 1961 by Doubleday. Thirteen years later in 1974 a movie based on the book was released. Norman Tokar, the director of the film made sure that the movie had as many similarities to the book as possible while fitting in the 97 minute time range. This story is about a 12 year old boy named who lives in the Ozarks. Billy is completely satisfied with his life other than not having the one thing he has ever wanted, Red-Bone Coonhounds

In the chapter 15 of the novel, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Billy has a superstition that it is bad luck if he hears more than one screech owl at on the same night. This superstition seems odd to me because I have never heard of it before and I don’t have experience with screech owls. However, superstitions are a part of every culture. People are superstitious because we want to control and explain things that we don’t understand. When bad things happen people want to have an explanation

remember fondly, is "Charlotte's Web", by E.B. White. It's not a fairy tale in the sense that "Little Red Riding Hood" is perhaps, but it is fantastical fiction nonetheless. The story is set on a farm owned by the Arable family. One of the resident pigs has a litter, including one poor little runt. Mr. Arable wants to kill the runt for food, since he won't thrive anyway, but his young daughter Fern won't allow it. She names the pig Wilburn and cares for him until he is too big to be a house pet