Where the Red Fern Grows Cause and Affect
Authors Note: I am writing this to show the cause and affects in the story of ‘Where the Red Fern Grows’ by Wilson Rawls.
The story of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls is about a young boy who had really wanted coon (raccoon) hunting dogs for a very long time. Because of his obsession for wanting coon hunting dogs, there are a lot of cause and affects in this story.
The story takes place in the early 1900’s in the southeast of the United States. The main character in this stories name is Billy. Billy is a young boy whose family lives in the mountains, pretty far away from a good education. He had always loved coon hounds, and when an ad in a magazine presents him with an opportunity to get his hounds he takes it. One of the causes in this story is him wanting coon hounds, and the affect is him working really hard for two years to get his hounds.
After two years of hard working, he had saved his money for his dogs he ends up with two small coon hunting pups. His grandpa had been telling him for a long time once he got his dogs to teach them how to catch coons. The cause is his grandfather telling him to teach his dogs how to hunt. The effect is that he does end up teaching his dogs how to hunt and ultimately gets him a reputation for being one of the best coon hunters in the area and eventually earns his family a lot of money for a contest he wins.
Towards the end of the story he enters his dogs in a contest for hunting coons and ends up winning the whole thing including the prize money that the other hunters had put together. Despite winning the contest and the prize money that had came with he decided that he wanted to continue to hunt coons with his hounds. That is the cause. The unfortunate effect in this story is that on a hunting trip he had encountered a mountain lion that tried to attack him, but his dogs saved his life by giving theirs. The book ends when a red fern grows on the graves of his dogs that he had loved so long.
The book where the red fern grows is a good but sad book that is about the close friendship that he had with the dogs he loved a lot. There were a lot of cause’s and affects in this story that were good and bad. In the end Billy ends up with great memories of the dogs he loved and the tragic end where his dogs gave everything they had including their lives to save him.
