- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this quotation, an older Travis reflects pensively on the actions of his younger self and touches on ideas about maturity, masculinity, and wildness (or the connection between people and animals). The older Travis feels that young boys are not very different at all from wild animals. This belief, if taken as true, explains why Travis and Old Yeller have such a close relationship: though they’re different species, they’re not as different as they seem. Boys and wild animals, Gipson suggests, exemplify the thin barrier between nature and human civilization. Their behaviors and dispositions are similar, and their experiences of…