Ron Bailitz 5/4/10 Period 8
Title: Old Yeller
Author: Fred Gipson
Pages: 117
Summary
Old Yeller is about a boy, Travis, that is forced to keep a hated dog, but learns to love it.

Passage
Page 113
Paragraph 4-6
It came clear to me that Mama was right. We couldn't take the risk. And from everything I had heard, I knew that there was very little chance of Old Yeller's escaping of the sickness. It was going to kill something inside of me to do it, but I knew then that I had to shoot my big yeller dog.
Once I knew for sure that I had it to do, I don't think I really felt anything. I was just numb all over, like a dead man walking.
Quickly, I left Mama and went to stand in the light of the burning bear grass. I reloaded my gun and called Old Yeller back from the house. I stuck the muzzle of the gun against his head and pulled the trigger.

I chose this passage because it was extremely sad. This dog saved all of his family and had to be killed just like that because he was bit by a mad wolf that gave him tha disease. The dog got bit by this wolf when he was fighting to protect Travis' Mama and his reward was to get shot. It was a terrible moment in the book.