What is the conflict about in the book Old Yeller?

Answer 1

The issue of human needs versus animal needs(the term animal rights was not yet coined) and the animal-sacrifice theme where the lead adult character shoots the Title character who has become rabid or infected with snake-bite. I never read the book but am familiar with reviews. It was one of the few live-action Disney films to have an unambiguous tragic ending- as opposed to one where say an animal ran off but could conceivably have been adopted by someone, this was final, shotgun death blast! The animal=sacrifice theme loosely pushed the outer perimeter of Science Fiction, such topics as , perhaps euthanasia, but has been used in some novels and also factual accounts such as the mis-titled (Ice pan) or Adventure on the Ice Pan, by Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the Labrador missionary. It"s based on fact, but if a novel, one might say a blend of Old Yeller and Jack London"s tales, as the location is the wiolds of the sub-arctic.

Answer 2

The problem in Old Yeller is that rabies is going around and Travis is worried that every one on his family, including Old Yeller, will get it.

Answer 3

The solution in Old Yeller is that Travis has to kill old yeller so nobody in his family gets sick or die from old yeller

Answer 4

The conflict is mainly man vs. Nature.

Answer 5

OLD yeller dies

Answer 6

they find a cure