Impacting On Us

Author note: The purpose of this piece is to write about a quote from Where The Red Fern Grows and how it affects the story and characters.

Have you ever wanted something so bad? In the book Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls .The main character a country boy named Billy wants two great hounds and he figures that,to earn something he has to work hard. In this book it has a lot of emotion and the quote “You told us to put one in tree and you would do the rest.” found on page 78.Shows the emotionAlso the quote has 3 important impacts in the novel.First How this quote shows how easily the main character Billy changes his emotion.Secondly how Billy’s pups have a big impact on him and his life and lastly it shows Billy’s personality.

Although the quote “You told us to put one in tree and you would do the rest.” Doesn’t seem like it could take a big part of this book. Personally my belief is that it shows how the main character Billy who was saying this quote to himself went to an angry and ashamed toward his dogs. Just like he said on page 74 “I’m ashamed of you little girl” To not wanting to give up Billy knew that he let his hounds down and mostly he let himself down for almost giving up.


Following about Billy’s emotions, this quote also showed how much the dogs have impacted him in his life so far. Billy learned that if he wanted something he had to work for it. Billy learned to never give up, just like he said “I don’t care how big you are, I’m not going to let my dogs down. I told them if they put a coon in the tree I would do the rest and I’m going to.” Found on page 78.Billy's dogs ment everything to him he could understand them and they could understand him in a (dog way).
Billy and his dogs had each other backs from the start,they where his bestfriends.He could never let them done he would protect them with his life.


Finally, Billy’s connection with his dogs and how his emotions change where easy to find within that quote. What about his personality? How could the reader find that? Deep inside the quote “You told us to put one in the tree and you would do the rest” breaking it down honestly the reader could figure out what message Billy was trying to past he was caring thinking about his dogs before himself ”You would do the rest “found inside that quote. This quote also slowly moves into his personality changing through the story since he learns to be more responsible probably because his hounds are something he is responsible for.


In conclusion the quote “You told us to put one in tree and you would do the rest.” Branches off into a bunch of little things that make the story what is it. Billy changes throughout the story and when the reader reads that quote it makes them really think .Finally that’s how a quote has so much impact on a story character.