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Old Yeller Essay Research Paper OLD YELLERThis

Old Yeller Essay, Research Paper


OLD YELLER


This was one of my favorite books during my childhood days. The book is a classic, and


Disney later made it into a motion picture. the story’’s climax develops quickly by telling stories


and adventures of a boy named Travis and his old stray yellow dog named Yeller.At the introduction of the book Travis is plowing corn in the garden when an old yellow darts bye and causes the mule to jump. He chases the dog out of the garden and curses at him. Then a few days later the stray dog ate some of the deer meat that was very important for the family’’s survival. Travis was very angered and threatened to kill the mischievious yellow dog, but his younger brother, Arliss, would not allow this.


There are many more adventures that the book tells of Old Yeller throughout the story


and I am going to put a heavy emphasis on the three that I enjoyed the most. First of all Travis


and his brother Arliss were out in the forest with their mother and were cutting wood. This was


going to be used to mend a fence that had broke in the yard. While Arliss was off on his own


exploring that day he ran across a small bear cub and began to play with it. Travis yelled at him


to turn the cub loose. Arliss could see the mother bear coming, but he was too frightened to turn


the cub loose. Travis and his mother ran down the hill to assist Arliss, but they knew that they


were going to be too late. All of the sudden Old Yeller came like a flash and attacked the bear


from her side. The bear turned quickly to fight the dog off. Travis hoisted Arliss up and threw


him to their mother. Travis then began to run and shout at the two fighting animals. The bear


tucked it’’s tail and left. Old Yeller had saved the life of Arliss and they were all very appreciative of what Yeller had done.


One of the next highlights in the book is when Old Yeller knocks down Rose, “the milk


cow.” Travis and Old Yeller were out in the woods looking for Rose because she had been gone


for three days without a trace. Rose had been expecting to give birth at any time and went off by


herself to do this. Travis finally located Rose and she had already given birth to the calf. Travis


chased after the calf to lift it up. While attempting to do this Rose charged towards him. It was at


that time that Travis began to realize what a great dog he reall

y had. Old Yeller dashed and


knocked down Rose then as she charged time and again at Yeller the dog tripped her up several


times. Later on that day while Travis was milking Rose she kept kicking the milk bucket over


and would not allow Travis to milk her. In order to put a stop to this incident Travis called over


Old Yeller to keep Rose in line. Old Yeller stood directly in front of Rose and thrashed forward


staring at her. The heifer was so frightened that she did not even try to budge.


The final adventure of Old Yeller that I would like to portray is very tragic and sad. It


begins with Rose contracting a disease called hydrophobia. This is an extremely fatal disease


which brings fourth foaming at the mouth of the animal. Rose, the cow, is killed and then burned


so that no other animals would eat her and spread the disease. Mama and her daughter Lisbeth


were burning the cow when a gray wolf tried to ambush them. Old Yeller came to their rescue


like a bolt of lightning and wrestled with the wolf. Both animals were biting and clawing at each


other. Travis then retrieved his rifle, took aim, and shot the wolf. The wolf also had hydrophobia


so that meant that Old Yeller had the chance of obtaining the sickness as well. After this incident


they were forced to lock Old Yeller up in a woodshed for a few weeks while keeping an eye on


him to make sure that he did not become ill. Nothing happened for a few days, but one night the


dog almost bit Mother and tried to lunge at her. At that moment Travis had no choice but to


shoot Old Yeller because it had become evident that the dog had contracted the disease. After


putting the poor yellow dog out of it’’s misery Travis took Yeller and buried him. As he stood


staring at the grave recollecting all the times Yeller had been there for he and his family he grew


very sad.


Lisbeth had soon later brought them a new puppy which helped to cheer Travis up. The


puppy was one of Old Yeller’’s offspring. He began to see similarities between the pup and the


old, yellow, stray named Old Yeller who had won over his heart. I really enjoyed reading this


book once again considering that it has probably been at least twelve years since I had read it the last time. It has many exciting adventures and is a little sad, but the ending helps to lift your spirit.

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