Just the Facts
The location for Where the Red Fern Grows.
What are the rural Ozark Mountains of northeastern Oklahoma?
The lead character in Where the Red Fern Grows.
Who is Billy Colman
The most common kind of conflict in a story.
What is Character vs. Character?
Treasured memories stirred up by the old hound.
What are boyhood memories, a K.C. baking powder can, and two hound dogs?
The phrase "God helps those who help themselves."
What is a phrase that is not in the Bible?
The approximate historical decade in which Billy is living?
What are the 1920's?
Who are the secondary characters introduced in the first three chapters of Where the Red Fern Grows?
Who are Mama, Papa, Grandpa, and Billy's sisters?
This kind of conflict has to do with a character's conscience.
What is Character vs. Self?
Ways Billy earned money to buy the dogs.
What are catching minnows and crawfish, selling vegetables and berries, and selling skunk/possum hides?
Psalm 46
What is: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."?
The author's chosen narrative or point of view for Where the Red Fern Grows?
What is 1st Person?
The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
What is a protagonist?
Some examples of this type of conflict would be "Zootopia", Hunger Games, and Horton Hears a Who.
What is Character vs. Society?
How Billy said God helped him get the money.
What is God giving him the "heart, courage, and determination"?
Proverbs 14:23
What is "In all toil their is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty."?
The reason Billy's parents won't give him what he wants most.
What is the family's poverty?
These characters have many different sides, are complex, and multi-dimensional.
What are Round Characters?
The kind of conflict seen in most disaster movies or books.
What is Character vs. Nature?
How Billy's begging affected his relationship with his mother.
What is making his mother angry, upset, and later concerned?
Proverbs 21:5
The inciting incident that changes Billy's life and sends him on a different path than the one he was on before.
What is finding the newspaper ad for Redbone Coonhound puppies?
Cinderella, Crush from "Finding Nemo", and Scar from "Lion King" are all examples of this type of character.
What is a flat character?
The kind of conflict seen in the first three chapters of Where the Red Fern Grows.
What is Character vs. Self? (Also could be Society)
The ways Billy has grown by the end of Chapter 3.
What is learning to ask God for help, hard work, courage, and determination?
Isaiah 50:7
What is "But the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame."?