Where the red fern grows

Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Essay written by: Travis Brown This book is about a young boy living in the great bottoms of the Ozarks with his mother, father, three sisters and his two dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann. Dan is a large dog with plain brute force, Ann is the one with intelligence, and Billy is the one with the heart to train them. Together they made an unbeatable hunting …

…he starts hunting again but tragically, in their last hunt, the two dogs treed a mountain lion. The lion attacks the dogs and they barely manage to fight it off. Old Dan is mortally wounded and after he dies Little Ann dies of a broken heart.At the end of this story Billy buries both of his two beloved dogs atop a hill only to find later that a Red Fern had grown between them.