This would be the theme because he thought he could not get the dogs because his parents or himself would not be able to afford to care for them but he end he ended up getting the dogs with his grandpa.
First the scene where he and his grandpa worked very hard for $50 (really $500) for the dogs it shows the theme because hard work pays off he got the dogs by working for all the money he never ever thought he could make that much money
Another reason it the theme is shown is when Billy’s dogs sacrifice their lives in the hunting competition they were frozen solid but hard work pays off because they won the competition and got the $300 for a new house near the city so his dad,billy,and his dogs won't have to do back-breaking work just for food and his dad can get a job also billy and his sisters can go to school. …show more content…
My last reason ‘’hard work pays off” in the book Where The Red Fern Grows is when Billy crys when the coon got treed but didn't come down but Billy’s grandfather showed him a trick that they would keep the coon treed for a long time then the coon would come down for food (which it did) then they would shoot it and then they got the coon hide see hard work does pay off in Where The Red Fern Grows.
In summary hard work pays off in Where The Red Fern Grows in more than 4 ways but in every chapter of this