Small to Big

Author’s Note: This is an essay on how Billy changes from the beginning to end of Where the Red Fern Grows.

For starters the story Where the Red Fern Grows is about a boy and his hounds. the boys name is Billy he runs into a lot of trouble. The first problem he solves by becoming a man and buying the hounds he wants. He works his butt off to get the money he wants. He is a dynamic character in many ways.

            To begin with he has the first problem he starts off by just asking for the hounds. Then he learns a great life lesson on the way to getting the hounds he wants. He learns that you don’t get everything you want handed to you; you have to work your butt off to get what you want. He is very mature about the first problem every time there is a problem in the book he changes to solve the problem.

            Again he runs into another problem later in the book is when the two meanest boys in town bet him to see if his hounds can catch the “Ghost Coon” before their hound can catch it. That is a big problem because Billy hasn’t had much time to train his hounds to catch a coon. Then through all the trouble they get into a fight and then one of the boys Rubin comes at Billy with an axe and then he finds out the hounds start fighting to and then Rubin goes after Billy’s hounds with the axe and he trips and falls on the axe. He is now dead and Billy handles it like a boy, and just runs.

            Finally he comes to the biggest problem, a boy could ever face and that is the death of his two hounds. It was a sad day for him because a mountain lion comes out ad kills his hounds. This roblem was a main turning point for Billy. His does were so injured the problem was unfixable. As Billy got older it was sad but he learned to just remember the good times with the hounds and forget the bad.

            To end with Billy was a truly dynamic character in the way he changed and how he adapted to the different problems he came to face. His heart like most of use in the beginning small then it changed just like his life and got bigger. Even though his hounds are now dead he remembers them as how great of pets they were to him. He also won a competition with the hounds. He will never forget Little Ann and Old Dan.