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 …showed first 75 words of 295 total…

…showed last 75 words of 295 total…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.