Informative Piece

                                                          Authors note:

In Where the Red Fern Grow by Wilson Rawls there is a person vs. nature conflict.. The purpose is to show how it is person vs. nature and how he reacted and how it affected the rest of the story.

Where the Red Fern Grows By Wilson Rawls is about a boy struggling against the forces of nature in his journey along the way. This is a person verses nature, the person is Billy and he is going against the mountain lion in the forest. Billy struggles against the mountain lion which causes both of his dogs to get injured horribly.

            First of all, the conflict is when Billy goes hunting a mountain lion starts to attack him and his dogs. Of course a boy Billy’s age would be frightened, as well as the dogs. In this situation, there were no cell phones or anything to let someone know they were in danger. The dogs aren’t that large of animals so they don’t have an advantage against a mountain lion.

            For a moment, put yourself in Billy’s shoes, you are getting attacked by a mountain lion and what are you? Calm? Not even close. Billy was frightened and shocked so he couldn’t fight back as well if he knew this was coming. In shock, there isn’t much control you have over your body.

            Lastly, when Billy sees the red fern, he knows that only red ferns are planted by angels. Billy sees it as his dog’s angels placing the red fern there for him. Sometimes when today’s people lose a loved one there is something that symbolizes them. For example when you see a certain kind of bird or when something good happens. For Billy seeing the red fern is when he accepted that the dogs are in a better place. Even though the Mountain Lion won the battle, Billy was the one who came out alive and well.

            Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls is about a boy struggling against the forces of nature and his journey along the way. Sadly, Billy and the two dogs weren’t that much competition to the mountain lion.  Billy was frightened and or shocked so there is not much control over what you are doing. In the end, Billy accepts the fact that his dogs are gone, and aren’t coming back, and the Red Fern helps his accept that.