Where the Red Fern Grows | Themes and Characters
This is a story about a young boy coming of age during the Great Depression. He develops from a young boy, fairly restricted to home and the immediate farm area, to a young teen allowed to roam the river bottoms, hills, and mountainous terrain surrounding his home. He leaves the protection of parental decisions and supervision to make life and death decisions affecting the lives of his dogs, the Pritchard boys, and himself.
A constant theme is determination or hard work and that a man who helps himself will get what he wants. This quality is first seen when Billy decides to save...
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