Old Yeller Jacob Childs 6A

Fred Gipson’s Life Fred Gipson was born in 1908 and died in 1973 and he is most popular for writing ‘Old Yeller’ in 1956 which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film.

The Setting in ’’Old Yeller’’ Where-Old Yeller was in Salt licks, Texas When-In the late 1800’s

Characters in ’’Old Yeller’’ Travis is a hard worker and will do any thing to get a job done. Mama is a good cook and a hard worker that loves her family. Little Arliss is not a hard worker and gets mad when he doesn’t get what he wants. Papa is a very hard worker and will do any work for some good money. Old Yeller is a good hog dog and will do anything for some meat to eat. Lisabeth is hard worker and a kind person. Bud Searcy is a lazy man that will do anything to get out of work. Burn Sanderson is a good person who is nice to others.

Authors Purpose The authors purpose of writing this book was to entertain the reader with a good story about a big yeller dog.

What happened in ’’Old Yeller’’ In the first part of the book - Travis went back home and found Old Yeller after he had just finished eating all their meat for the winter. Then Travis had to go hunting and he killed a doe. Then he hung the deer up that he killed when he went in the dog run and he said that would be a good excuse to get rid of Old Yeller. Then two big longhorn bulls met around their house and fought and they almost tore down their but Travis stopped them just in time.

What happened in ’’Old Yeller’’ Then Burn Sanderson came and said that Old Yeller was his dog before them and he said that they could keep him until papa got back but they said no, so he tied Old Yeller to his horse and started to leave, but that is when Little Arliss caught on to what they were doing and threw a fit and threw rocks at him so he got off his horse and traded Arliss a meal from mama for Old yeller. In the middle of the book

What happened in ’’Old Yeller’’ In the end of the book-Travis out working in fields when he seen Spot the heifer just barely staying on her feet. So he yelled to Mom and she came out and looked at her and said that she had to be killed so Travis followed her out into the woods and when she got to a dried up creek bed he shot her. Then he went home and told Mom where she was so Mom, Lisabeth, and Old Yeller went to burn her and while they were burning her a wolf attacked them but Old Yeller fought the wolf all the way back to their house and that is where the wolf bit Old Yeller on the neck and then Travis shot the wolf but mom said that Old Yeller could have hydrophobia and couldn’t take the risk so Travis had to shoot Old Yeller the next day Papa got home with a horse but Travis wasn’t happy because he missed Old Yeller but that evening when Travis was working he herd his Mom yell and then the Speckled pup ran out the door and that is when Travis got happy again.

Compare and Contrast Travis and Little Arliss are alike because they are both country and they are not alike because Arliss throws fits all the time and Travis don’t.

Theme in ’’Old Yeller’’ One of the themes in ’’Old Yeller’’ was the loss of innocence. And another theme is life’s choices.

Summary of ’’Old Yeller’’ In ’’Old Yeller’’ Travis’s Papa leaves and Travis goes back and finds Old Yeller and Travis doesn’t like Old Yeller at first but then he starts to like him then they get hurt and they have to lay around all day and then Travis has to shoot spot the heifer and while Mama and Lisabeth are gone they get attacked by a wolf and Old Yeller gets bit so Travis has to shoot him.