The Fox and The Hound (novel)

A novel written by Daniel P. Mannix and published in 1967. It had a Disney movie based on it, which is much better known than the book.

The plot of The Fox and The Hound stars a human-raised red fox named Tod. After Tod causes the death of a hunter's prize hound, Chief, the hunter pursues Tod in a fit of vengeance.

This novel provides examples of the following tropes:

 * Bear Trap
 * Cunning Like a Fox: Tod engages in a back and forth battle of wits with the hunter, who constantly uses new traps and new hunting methods to try and catch Tod.
 * After noticing Chief tailing him, Tod waits in front of a railroad track for a train to arrive, and dashes across at the last minute.
 * Determinator: The Hunter.
 * Downer Ending: Tod, and with most of his property gone and no more purpose in life, the hunter retires to a nursing home.
 * Everything's Worse With Bears: While Chief protects the hunter from a bear, Copper cowers in fear.
 * Ghibli Hills: Subverted. The forest and The Master's land all get eaten up by urbanization.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Copper, an aging bloodhound-mix who'd fallen out of his master's favour, absolutely hates Chief, a younger dog who is challenging his role as head dog. He's overjoyed when Chief is.
 * Infant Immortality: Averted., and none of   make it to adulthood.
 * Jerkass: Both title characters. There's Tod, who hangs around by the hunter's dogs and taunts them while they're chained. When one finally gets loose and chases him, he . And Copper, whose jealously toward Chief makes him so hateful of the dog that he's happy when.
 * Kick The Fox: The hunter.
 * No Name Given: The hunter, who is referred to as The Master by Copper and the hunter by Tod.
 * The Noun and The Noun
 * Old Dog: Copper
 * Pet the Dog: A different hunter killed both Tod's mother and siblings, but kept and raised Tod as a pet.
 * The Plague: Rabies.
 * Recursive Adaptation: The Disney books inspired by the movie, which was inspired by the original novel.
 * Shown Their Work: Mannix spent over a year studying foxes, which included watching them in the wild, interviewing hunters and even keeping a pair of red foxes in his home. It shows.
 * Spared By the Adaptation:  dies in the novel and the book of the film, but not the Disney film that inspired the book of the film of the book.
 * Summon Bigger Fish: In this case, Tod uses a train to.
 * Xenofiction: None of the animals can talk, and much of the book is spent characterizing them without dialogue.
 * Summon Bigger Fish: In this case, Tod uses a train to.
 * Xenofiction: None of the animals can talk, and much of the book is spent characterizing them without dialogue.