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    father packed his things,and his family walked him out of the house, and he was on his way to catch a coon. As Billy is walking in the woods,…

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    BIlly trusted his dogs enough to let them free and get on to a track of a coon. So Little Ann and Old dan ran out into the woods with Billy following them. When the dogs got a sent they worked together to track down the coon. Billy was always with them when they were hunting so that he could keep track of where they are. Billy made a promise to his dogs that if they treed the coon then Billy would do the rest. Billy said, “ It’ll be the real thing, so remember everything I thought…

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    Where The Red Fern Grows

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    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…

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    After Billy got done talking to his dogs, they were on there way to search for a coon. When Billy was walking all by himself, he kept on walking, until he heard noises from Old Dan. He stopped, dropping his ax and lantern, he felt something that was on him. He gave Old Dan and Little Ann a signal to get their attention. They was going to a trail of the river coon. The river coon tricked the, which made them not find him. They was sad, and wanted Billy to help them, but he didn't…

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    Let's start. The book was made in 1960. It starts out when he was walking out of his job. As he was walking he seen two dogs fighting. And it reminded him when he had two dogs when he was little. When he was little he saved up his money to buy two coon hounds. When he got enough money he bought the dogs at the store. He waited,and waited until it came. When he went to the shop his grandfather said that he would have to go over the hills to get…

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    Billy saw an advertisement and sees people are selling coon-hound pups. He has always wanted coon- hound pups so he started to work to get enough money to buy them. The next big event is he gets the pups and starts to raise them. Then the two Pritchard boys challenge Old Dan and Little Ann(the coon pups) to try to catch an old coon they call “the ghost coon” , they accept and they also bet 2 dollars. While they were trying to catch the Ghost coon they all got into a fight. So unfortunately, the…

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    Billy Coleman lives in the Ozark Mountains with his family. At a young age, Billy developed an awful “disease” as he called it. What is the “disease” of puppy love? He longed to be able to have not just one, but two coon hounds. Although, Billy’s family could simply not afford two good coon hounds, as they just did not have that type of money. With determination and hard-work, Billy is eventually able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own–Old Dan and…

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    including winning the coon-hunting contest. Where the Red Fern Grows is told in first person point of view by Billy Colman. Along with Billy, the main characters of the novel include Old Dan, Little Ann, Papa, Grandfather, Mama, Ruben Pritchard, and Rainie Pritchard.…

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    impacted many people’s lives. I wasn’t skeptical about initially hearing the findings. Modern media is just like the game telephone, “usually, when the person at the end of the line repeats the message it has been humorously distorted” (Coon & Mitterer, 2010 p.43). First off, when you think about it, in our generation right now, too much sexual contents have been revealed of television. By people watching such content, it has affected their sexual attitudes, beliefs and behaviors…

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    money. I will now tell you how to trap a wild raccoon in two different traps. First, you have to find a place to trap. I prefer spots with trees that are by, or close to a creek, river, or pond. It provides shelter, food, and water for the coon. When a coon catches something, like a mouse or a crawdad, it is their instinct to wash it with water before they eat it. They will do the same with grass and berries. Then, you need to set the trap. The two traps I use are live traps, and foot traps. To…

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