Old Yeller By: Kayla Winters

Authors Biography  Fred Gipson was born February 7,1908.And he was an American author. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel ‘’Old Yeller,’’ that became a popular Walt Disney film. Fred Gipson was born on a farm near Mason in the Texas Hill Country. After working a variety of farming and ranching jobs, he enrolled in 1933 at the university of Texas at Austin. There he wrote for the Daily Texan and the ranger but he left before he graduated to become a newspaper journalist.

setting  Salt lick Texas  In the 1800’s

characters  Little Arliss- wanted to claim Old Yeller  Travis- big brother of Little Arliss  Papa- Little Arliss and Travis's father  Ma- Little Arliss and Travis's mother  Lizbeth- Little Arliss and Travis's friend  Bud Searcy- Lizbeths Grandfather  Burn Sanderson- Old Yellers first owner  The pup-Lizbeth gave Travis

Authors purpose  To entertain reader with a story about a family who found a dog that they soon claimed.

Sequence  Old Yeller stole some of their meat  They kept Old Yeller  Travis began to like Old Yeller  After Old Yeller Saved Little Arliss’s life the first time Travis petted him, pulled a thorn from his paw, cleared the tick out of his ears, washed him, rubbed him with bacon grease to rout flea’s and let him sleep in his bed.

Sequence  Burn Sanderson warned Travis about hydrophobic animals  Travis was afraid because of what Burn told him  A bunch of hogs cut up Old Yeller and Travis  Lizbeth helped take care of Travis and Old Yeller

Sequence  Spot had hydrophobia  Travis shot her  Ma and Lizbeth had to go get wood to burn her  Ma and Lizbeth were gone a long time  Travis went looking for them  A wolf attacked them  Old Yeller stopped the hydrophobic wolf and was bitten so they had to shoot him.

Compare/Contrast  Old Yeller and the pup were alike because one day the pup took off with a piece of bread and at the beginning Old Yeller took their meat.

Theme  One Theme of this story is about a dog who comes to a boy but the boy doesn’t like him  Next the boy learns to like him and they become best friends

Summary  One day Travis finds a dog and he doesn’t like him but Travis’s little brother wants to keep him so their mother decides to let him keep the dog. Then one day Little Arliss was holding on to a cubs foot so the mother came running after him so Old Yeller saved him and that’s when the friendship began.