Monday, October 7, 2013

What are four main events in Black Beauty?

Anna Sewell's classic, Black Beauty,
is a novel that advocates for the humane treatment of animals, especially the horse.
Therefore, the main events of Beauty's life center upon his fortunes and mistortunes
that point to the cruel acts of humans. Here are five examples from which you can
choose:


1.  After Beauty is grown and trained, lives an
idyllic lif.  He proves his mettle one night during a storm when he refuses to cross a
bridge.  John the handler discovers that the bridge is broken in the middle and they
would have been gravely injured had Beauty not sensed
danger.


2. John Manley, the coachman at Birtwick
rides Beauty to fetch the doctor for Mrs. Gordon, but when he returns, hot from the
franctic ride, he is nearly killed after Joe Green lets him drink cold
water.


3.  Beauty is sold to Earls Hall Park. The
stablehand, Reuben Smith gets drunk and takes Beauty on a dangerous ride.  Beauty loses
a shoe and damages his foot; under the pain, the horse falls  with great force. When
Beauty heals his knees are blemished, so he is sold to a master of a livery
stable.


4.  After suffering under the reins of drivers who
know little, Beauty is finally purchased by the kind London cab driver, Jerry Barker for
whom he works for four years until Jerry's health deteriorates and he can no longer
drive. Beauty drives a poor woman and her young son to a hospital one day. Beauty has
occasion to see poor Ginger who is made to pull heaviy loads.  One day he observes a
cart with a dead horse in it that appears to be Ginger.


5.
After being sold to a corn dealer and then another cruel owner, Nicholas Skinner; Beauty
is so overworked that he is pulled down. A farrier sees that Beauty still has wind, but
is too weak to work, so he tells the owner to take Beauty to a horse fair.  There a kind
farmer named Thoroughgood, and he and his grandson take Beauty home.  They restore
Beauty's health and sell him to Ellen and Lavinia Blomfield.  Joe, who works for them,
recognizes Black Beauty and tells the ladies; afterwards, Beauty remains with them and
lives happily.

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