Black Beauty
Black Beauty is a classic novel written by Anna Sewell. Black Beauty is a horse who moved to several different places during his life. Merrylegs, Sir Oliver, and Ginger were Beauty’s friends at one of his homes, Birtwick Park. Black Beauty gets weak and sick but then finds a good owner who takes care of him. Beauty was brave, smart, and had good manners.
Horse owners aren’t always good to their horses, this makes Black Beauty brave. One owner of his would whip him in order to go. It was so hard that he collapsed and broke his knees. “The pain was too great. I stumbled, and fell with violence on both my knees” (92). His friend Ginger and him went separate ways but when they reunited, they weren’t in great conditions. Ginger died shortly after that. One of his best friends had died. “A cart with a dead horse in it passed our cabstand” (157). Later on he became a cab-horse. There was one family who had a lot of luggage and it was a bit too much for Beauty. “ In a single moment---I cannot tell how---my feet slipped from under me, and I fell heavily to the ground on my side” (185). In all of these examples, he fought through the troubles and went to a good place in the end.
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She gave him advice that he would never forget. “Do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play” (4). Beauty’s friend Merrylegs was talking about his riding lesson. He said he threw them off his back. Beauty did not like the sound of that. He said to him, “You threw the children off? I thought you did know better that that!” (31). His last owner was kind to Beauty. He had great help and Beauty enjoyed himself there. He knew that was his home. “I have now lived in this happy place a whole year. Joe is the best and kindest of grooms” (193). He never lost what his mother said to him when he was