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Black Beauty
The answer to this question can be found in part 1, chapter 7 of the book. This chapter is a little bit of a break in Beauty's story because the chapter focuses on Ginger. Ginger begins by telling...
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Black Beauty
Let me start by explaining the word "fixed" in this particular usage. When a bridle is fixed on a horse, that does not mean the bridle is repaired. It means that the bridle is in a stationary,...
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Black Beauty
Before identifying the ending, it is important to recognize the conflict featured in Anna Sewell's 1877 novel, Black Beauty. First, the book is the unique for being narrated in the first person by...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty's mother, Duchess, is a bit of an equine snob. She constantly reminds her son that he's a well-bred, well-born foal; his grandfather won the cup two years at the Newmarket races, and...
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Black Beauty
John is the man that is ultimately in charge of the horses at Birtwick Park. He is wonderful with horses, and his team of stable boys are equally adept at taking care of the horses. One of those...
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Black Beauty
I would say that the main conflict in the story is Beauty's mistreatment at the hands of one terrible owner after another. To be fair, Beauty's first couple of owners are wonderful; however, once...
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Black Beauty
The following events are what I would consider to be the main events of Black Beauty. I would say that Beauty's birth should be the first main event in any list, as the story would not exist...
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Black Beauty
A character plan is something that a writer works through before or during the writing of a piece of literature. Some teachers might call it a character sketch. A reader will do a character...
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Black Beauty
The central problem in Anna Sewell’s novel is how the horse Beauty can overcome the difficulties he experiences at the hands of his various owners. The novel is unusual in having an animal...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty, published in 1877, is set in various locations in England in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. In it, the horse Black Beauty, through whose eyes the story is told, is sold to...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty’s mother, Duchess, gives him some advice in chapter 1 of the novel, after he has been playing with the six colts with whom he shares a meadow. They have been playing roughly, kicking...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty's latest master, Mr. Douglas, is deeply upset by a particular display of animal cruelty he witnesses while out riding one day. After his pony makes a wrong turn, a local builder by the...
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Black Beauty
Mr. Manly is reluctantly selling Black Beauty and Ginger to the coachman Mr. York. The two horses have been placed in adjoining boxes in a stable, where they are rubbed down and fed. Mr. York comes...
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Black Beauty
The very last lines in the book read: Willie always speaks to me when he can, and treats me as his special friend. My ladies have promised that I shall never be sold, and so I have nothing to...
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Black Beauty
In "Earlshall," Part 2, Chapter 22 of Anna Sewell's 1877 novel Black Beauty, Beauty is being taken to his new home at Earlshall Park after having lived at Birtwick Park for the past three years...
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Black Beauty
Films always need much more visual and emotional drama to be appealing to viewers than books need to be appealing to readers. As such, while director Caroline Thompson's 1994 film is the most...
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Black Beauty
Poor Ginger has gone through many different owners throughout the years, each one treating her worse than the last. The main reason for Ginger's maltreatment seems to be her extraordinary beauty,...
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Black Beauty
You may feel free to answer this question either way. It is an opinion-based question, and not all readers are going to agree that Beauty effectively teaches readers how horses should and should...
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Black Beauty
There are several hints in the first few paragraphs of the story that the narrator is the eponymous horse. For example, the narrator describes how he and others like him "looked over a gate at our...
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Black Beauty
The first few chapters of Black Beauty describe Black Beauty's early years as a young colt. He was born and brought up in a beautiful meadow with a kind master and a mother who doted on him. In...
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Black Beauty
After being sold from farm to farm and between various owners for the majority of his life, Black Beauty finally gets to spend his last days in freedom and at rest. After being terribly abused and...
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Black Beauty
John takes care of Black Beauty that night by drying him, putting on his blanket, and feeding him a good dinner before bed. When Black Beauty reaches the bridge, he can tell something is wrong. He...
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Black Beauty
Readers should look through chapter 21 for the answer to this question. The very first sentence of the chapter gives readers two very important pieces of information. First, being at Gordon's ranch...
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Black Beauty
In Chapter One of Black Beauty, Black Beauty reflects upon his childhood next to a lovely meadow where he lives with his mother, Duchess, and six other colts. Black Beauty loves to play with his...
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Black Beauty
The main theme of Black Beauty is the care of animals, particularly horses. Many people have said that Sewell could have written a non-fiction text describing the care of horses instead of Black...
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Black Beauty
Ginger is a second horse belonging to Squire Gordon at Birtwick Park. We first meet Ginger in Chapter 4, Part 1 of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. She is very angry that a young horse like Black Beauty...
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Black Beauty
Two experiences that teach Black Beauty lessons are his experiences of witnessing the consequences after a fox hunt, and his fortnight spent at a neighbor's meadow. 1. In Chapter 2 Darkie (what...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty with the express purpose of informing readers about the themes of mistreatment of horses and of proper care of horses. Mistreatment of horses With the express...
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Black Beauty
In Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, Little Joe Green is hired as the stable boy to replace James Howard once John Manly, the coachman at Birtwick Park, recommends James as head groom at a different...
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Black Beauty
A character sketch is a description of a character written in such a way that the reader gets to know the character as a person, like creating a written snapshot of the character. A character...
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Black Beauty
At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 25 of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, the title character, who is the narrator and protagonist, explains the story of Reuben Smith.Reuben Smith was a groom at...
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Black Beauty
In Part 1, Chapter 19 of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, soon after Little Joe Green replaces James Howard as the stable boy at Squire Gordon's Birtwick Hall, Mistress Gordon falls ill in the middle of...
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Black Beauty
Rob Roy is Black Beauty's brother. Rob Roy is killed because his leg is broken during a hunting accident. The hunt is described in chapter two of Anna Sewell's classic tale Black Beauty. During...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty lives a happy, carefree life with his mother in the lush green meadow. When she goes out to work for the day, her son is free to have fun, to run around and gallop with the six young...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell's endearing and poignant story of Black Beauty opens in a large, pleasant meadow with a clean pond at Farmer's Grey in the English countryside, the first home of the young colt. After...
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Black Beauty
Reason, compassion, and bitterness are some of the most important human attributes Anna Sewell gives her horse characters in Black Beauty.One example of a horse's ability to reason can be seen in...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty remembers a lot about his early life, which is just as well, as it forms an idyllic contrast to the more troubled times he encounters in later years. Given his carefree start in life,...
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Black Beauty
While Ann Sewell's Black Beauty became famous for the poignant story of a beautiful and gentle horse as well as the novel's effecting the promotion of humane treatment of horses, the most salient...
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Black Beauty
On the mend himself from having drunk cold water when he was over-heated after a frantic trip to get the doctor for Mrs. Gordon, in Chapter 21 Beauty overhears the men discussing the fact that the...
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Black Beauty
Since the rising action of the plot of a narrative involves the onset of a problem, in "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell this problem occurs after Beauty has been purchased by the Gordons of Birtwick...
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Black Beauty
Rising action is defined as all action leading up to the climax. The climax is the turning point in the story, the moment rising action becomes falling action leading to the resolution; it is often...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is a coming-of-age story written as an autobiographical account of a horse's life. The story's purpose is to comment on the dually good and evil nature of humanity while...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell, who was born in Yarmouth, England, in 1820, sets her novel, Black Beauty in this Victorian Age. This setting is central to the narrative of a horse's life as it was a time before...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty is told using a first-person point of view from the perspective of the titular horse. It is an autobiographical memoir, meaning that Black Beauty is telling his story as he looks back...
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Black Beauty
As Beauty grows he begins his training. His master first gets Beauty used to the bit and bridle, then he places a saddle upon the horse's back. After a few days of this practice, the man tightens...
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Black Beauty
After an idyllic existence as a foal, the time has come for Black Beauty to make the difficult transition to adulthood. At the start of chapter 3, Black Beauty has reached the age of four. Squire...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was a rather ground-breaking work because it was one of the first novels to portray an animal as animal rather than as an animal with human characteristics. At the...
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Black Beauty
Initially, Joe Green is the stable boy for Squire Gordon and Lady Anne at Birtwick Park; he replaces James, who in Chapter 16, after the Squire and his wife have decided to visit friends and stay...
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Black Beauty
Ginger, a pretty chestnut horse, is the stablemate of Black Beauty while he lives at Birtwick Park. After Black Beauty grows to adulthood, he is sold to Squire Gordon in Birtwick Park. There he...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty is born and grows up in the English countryside. Beauty remembers first a pleasant meadow in which he lives with his mother. He has many a happy day, frolicking in this meadow and...
