Where the Red Fern Grows, Our Tears Flow
Do you remember watching Anne of Green Gables The Sequel, where Anne was reading to her class of girls, and they were all sitting there sobbing and then left the room crying?
I was reminded of that scene this morning in our homeschool when I read the last few chapters of Where the Red Fern Grows aloud to C6 and B9.
Looking at this book in relation to my “issues”, it mentioned a few instances of the boy being whipped or switched by his mother, although it obviously didn’t change his behaviour (which reminds me of the Israelites). These quotes stood out:
“I wasn’t scared of him [his father], for he never whipped me. He was always kind and gentle.”
“I could scold them [his dogs] a little, but I could no more have whipped one of them than I could have kissed a girl. After all, a boy just doesn’t whip his dogs.”
I also found the recurring themes of answered prayer and predestination to be interesting.
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