By Seth

Hello, my name is Seth and I have a book to movie comparison. Here’s a summary of the book. Billy lives in the Ozark Mountains and really wants to get coon hounds but he doesn’t have enough money. So he was walking around and saw an ad in the paper that said, “two coon hounds $50. “ So he got to work. Finally penny after penny he got 50 dollars. He got his pups in a city miles away. When he gets back he gets a coon skin and trains them every trick he knew of. It turns out they are great hunting dogs with an unusual relationship with each other. They will not hunt without each other nor will they eat. Billy’s grandpa enters them in a championship coon hunt. Little Ann wins a beauty contest by herself, and they both win the championship coon hunt. They won 2 cups (1 for the beauty contest and the other for the big hunt) and a big cash prize. Then Billy keeps hunting with the dogs in his back yard. One day they tree the devil cat. (a cougar) the cougar and Old Dan get in a fight Old Dan is really cut up so Billy hits it with a hatchet kills it. Old Dan dies because of his wounds. Little Ann was ok she didn’t get hurt. Then later on Little Ann dies because she wouldn’t eat anything without Old Dan and because of depression. So they were buried next to each other. Then a sacred fern grew in between each other. Billy’s parents found out the money Little Ann and Old Dan won gave them enough money to move to the city for the kids to get a proper education.

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I liked the book Where the Red Fern Grows better than the movie. The movie didn’t have all the parts that the book had. The book was great! The movie, it was really cheesy. Some of the good parts in the book were left out in the movie. For instance: the part where Little Ann falls in the freezing creek and almost dies.

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