Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Тhe Settting and Main Conflict of Where the Red Fern Grows

 The setting of my book is a very small village in the past. I don't know the exact time all I know is that the narrator is actually grandpa telling us some stories of his childhood.

  The main conflict in the book is the hunting and all the things the dogs have been through. It's true that they have treed many many coons but it would be a lie if I said it wasn't complicated and required lots of hard work. But on the end, when you look at all they've achieved: won a gold cup on a big hunt where all the best hunter in the state compete, treed the ghost coon (that everybody said was impossible to kill)... And just look at the fact what they've been through and how much they love each other and you'll realize all the hunting and adventures were worth it.

 But,unfortunately, the story doesn't end happily. Billy and the two dogs fight a lion and Old Dan dies. The way he died is scary, disgusting but more than all of that sad. Just as the happiest moment in the book ends they go hunting ad Old Dan dies. I cried when he described the injuries of his dogs. And then Little Ann was so sad and weak and couldn't continue living that she died too.

 Every hunt was written with many, many details in the book especially all the tricks the coons played on Billy's dogs. So, I guess that's the main conflict. The main conflict goes on through the whole book.

  There were many predicaments the dogs got into and had to help each other to get out of them like when Little Ann jumped over the river and didn't make it. She fell, broke the ice, and fell into the icy cold water. If Billy hadn't rescued her she would have died of coldness.

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