Author’s note: In my essay focus on learning to look on the positives in life because there are always doing to be negatives. Read the essay carefully because it, also talks about that you should accept life the way it is.
Most people in the world don’t have random stray dogs come to their house and eat all of their food. The people in the story Old Yeller, by Fred Gibson,saw the dog eating their food and were very upset. The people finally, overcame the problem by helping the dog survive by letting it stay in their barn and feeding it. In the book Old Yeller the beginning is happy about discovering the dog, but the end is tragic and makes most readers explode into a river of tears. This story Old Yeller teaches readers to overcome sadness with real life examples.
Why? At the beginning of the fantastic story the characters in Old Yeller uncover a dog snacking on their dinner. They got very angry with the dog and hated the dog during that time. Then the people in Old Yeller finally forgave the dog and felt bad for it. The dog was a stray and wasn’t in the best shape because it had to hunt for its own food. The family decides the stray could stay in their nice barn, because their son wanted a dog badly. His parents couldn’t afford a dog. When the child thought about the dog for a little bit he thought the dog could chase away the crows that ate the corn in the corn crops. The boy could use an extra friend, too.
The people that lived on the farm, were happy because they found a dog that would be useful to them. Yeah, I got a dog! The beginning it was great when they found the dog. In the middle it was a little sad because Old Yeller got hurt. Then the dog healed and was fine for about another 6 months or so and no one was worried.
One day, then the owner of the dog heard some weird and loud noises outside. When the owner came outside, he saw Old Yeller and a wolf attacking each other and it didn’t end pretty. Old Yeller got bite by the rabid animal and foamed in the mouth, because of rabies. Wouldn’t that hurt you if you saw something that you were connected to that was hurting. The family on the farm found out how it felt. Horrible!
Old Yeller was a fantastic book, but if I could change one thing I would have the story start sad and end happy. The book Old Yeller would would be way better, to people it was remembered as a happy and exciting book. Not a sad and unhappy book, like it was. Old Yeller, the dog, should have been injured at the start and then improved , and be happy at the end. Why would the story be happy then sad, it should be sad then happy?
The book Old Yeller had great lessons that taught me to overcome sadness and accept life as it is. Old Yeller had great real life examples and great lessons to be learned. You should focus on the positives in life because there are always going to be negatives.
