Red has “all the qualities a dog should have.” Danny has always dreamed of having a dog like Red as a companion. Red is beautiful, a “shiny, silky red from nose to tail,” as well as intelligent, strong, and loyal. Haggin’s prize show dog: an Irish Setter with the fancy pedigreed name of Champion Sylvester’s Boy, but Danny calls him Red.Īlthough Danny has grown up with dogs, he has never seen one like Red.
Haggin news of his bull, Danny encounters Red for the first time. Danny finds the bull, but it has been killed by Old Majesty, a mighty black bear that has terrorized the Wintapi for years. As Big Red opens, Danny tracks a bull that has gone missing from Mr. Haggin raises expensive, pedigreed cattle, blooded horses, and show dogs on his large property. Danny and Ross do not have a lot of money, but they do keep some bluetick hunting hounds, a cow, some pigs, a mule named Asa, and chickens. They make their living off the land by hunting, fishing, collecting and selling wild honey, trapping and selling pelts, and occasionally doing odd jobs for Mr. Danny lives with his father, Ross Pickett, in a one-room cabin in the Wintapi on the edge of wealthy Mr. As Danny and Red overcome dangerous encounters in the wild, their trust in each other grows and so does their special bond. Kjelgaard, an avid conservationist, outdoorsman, and animal lover, vividly describes the natural world of the Wintapi. Narrated from a third-person point of view, the story follows the experiences of seventeen-year-old Danny Pickett and his dog, Big Red, in the Wintapi wilderness.
Haggin promised to pay Danny this much per month to take care of Red.Big Red is a classic outdoor adventure novel for young readers written in 1945 by American author Jim Kjelgaard. personality Danny discovered from a picture that Mr. Three The tie-breaker for two dogs that are equal physically was this. Repeats the same sound at the beginning of several words alliteration What Danny calls his dad Pappy Usually occurs at the end of a chapter when the author eaves the reader in suspense cliffhanger profiteer a person who seeks high profits through the sale of scarce goods languish to be or become weak or feeble scintillate to sparkle flash haberdashery a store that sales men's apparel varied changed altered Big Red had to earn this many points to be a champion in the dog show. Seven thousand a literary device where the author Haggin paid _ dollars for Champion Sylvester's Boy.
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