Where The Red Fern Grows Themes

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From the sleepless nights listening to the baying of a coon hound to the sickening howl of the mountain lion, Billy Coleman builds a fierce love for Little Ann and Old Dan that not even death can crack. The road through life is not always smoothly paved, and the story of Billy and his hounds is no different. Through the book Billy’s love for his dogs never wavers, in fact it seems as though his love only deepens through the trials and tribulations of life. In his novel Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls explores the theme that the value of love runs deeper than the asperity of hardships and tragedy.

Loyalty is a form of love, it shows that your devotion is strong enough to push you to do things that are hard for you. Billy’s dedication is put to a test when Little Ann and Old Dan tree their first coon in the Big Tree. He had promised his dogs that if they “just put one up a tree” he would do the rest, but when they put one up in the largest sycamore tree in the river bottoms, he faces what seems to be an impossible task. Although the odds are against him, he decides to try and cut down the tree, and when he is on the verge of quitting, it is his dogs the drive him on. The big tree had been a special landmark to him and he had spent hours of his life trying to figure out a name for it, but in the end, his love for his dogs …show more content…
When the hounds chase down a mountain lion, Billy joins in the fight without a thought as to how dangerous it is. The blade “seemed to hiss as it sliced through bone and gristle,” in the end, it is teamwork that brings down the “devil cat of the Ozarks.” In the fight Old Dan is mortally wounded and dies, without him, Little Ann loses the will to live and dies soon after. Billy is sick with grief, when he buries his dogs, he says that “I also buried part of my life along with my
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