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Old Yeller: Chapter 4

BULL FIGHT

1. "Mama's face was white as a bed sheet." (43)

Explain the figurative language in this sentence. 

2. Explain momma's solution to the bull fight.  What did she want Travis to do about it? Why did Travis think this was a good idea?

3. Explain what Travis ended up doing to stop the bulls from "tearing up everything they had."

4. Explain the "freak accident." (45-48)

5. Infer what Old Yeller may have been thinking when he saw Travis with the bullwhip?

6. Why do you think Travis liked to watch animals fight?

Vocabulary 

 

clamoring (37)

knoll (38) 

tallow (38)

astride (42)

lunged (42)

Careened (46)

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