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Black Beauty
In Chapter 1, the master is portrayed as a kind man. He provides the horses with good food and quarters, and he speaks to them kindly--as kindly as he speaks to his own children. Black Beauty's...
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Black Beauty
Horses are sensitive and in some ways fairly delicate animals; whoever cares for them must have knowledge that they are different from other common domestic animals. Anna Sewell said herself that...
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Black Beauty
There are nine owners of Black Beauty recorded in the fictional novel. However, there are many more who come into contact with him throughout his life and have a dramatic impact upon him. Black...
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John refers to John Manly, the coachman on Squire Gordon's estate. The reader is first introduced to John in Chapter 4, when Black Beauty goes to his new home. Merrylegs, another horse, tells him,...
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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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In the novel Black Beauty, the horse has many masters, good and bad. In Chapter 12, Black Beauty's master and his friend John had to travel on business and used Black Beauty as their carthorse. It...
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Black Beauty's only real negative trait in Anna Sewell's story is his naivete. His naivete makes it difficult for him to accept what becomes of him as the story progresses. But, regardless,...
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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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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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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
Anna Sewell's classic is set in 19th-century England and revolves around the life of a horse, Black Beauty. The story is a first-person narrative of his life from the perspective of a horse...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty is the dynamic narrator and protagonist of Anna Sewell's story. A dynamic character is one who changes throughout the story. Though Black Beauty's character traits never change in the...
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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
First readers of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty probably attained new perceptions of horses and, at least, some compassion for animals as well as learning of the dangers of intemperance. Ms. Sewell...
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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
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 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...
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Throughout Black Beauty, author Anna Sewell uses the term fast in three different senses. One sense is to refer to firmness, another to closeness, and another to speed.Early in the story, while...
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A plot diagram is shaped much like a triangle or a mountain. As we see in "Mrs. Welty's Guide to Literary Elements," to draw a plot diagram, we begin with the exposition at the base of the...
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In her children's novel Black Beauty, Anna Sewell paints the life of a horse as being full of hardships; she even likens a horse's life to that of a slave. However, she also offers a ray of hope by...
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The bearing rein, called a check-rein in Black Beauty, is a piece of tack that runs from the horse's back, over the head, and attaches at the bit. It's function is to hold the horse's head at a...
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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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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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If we count Farmer Grey's as Black Beauty's first home, the farm and meadow upon which Beauty was raised as a colt and broken in, then Earlshall Park would be considered Beauty's third home in Anna...
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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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In Chapter 3, "My Breaking In," Black Beauty describes how his master decides to break him in after Squire Gordon comes to visit him and decides that he will take Black Beauty after the horse is...
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There are several moments in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty when someone jumps out of a cart, especially a dog-cart, which is an open one-horse drawn vehicle that only sits one driver and one...
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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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A conflict in any story is a battle between two opposing elements; the battle is usually fought between the protagonist and the antagonist. The protagonist in any story is the one who overcomes the...
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In Chapter 16, Black Beauty of Anna Sewell's story narrates the account of how he had been subjected to a stable fire. He and Ginger had been chosen to drive Squire Gordon and his wife to visit...
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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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Most of the adjectives describing Ginger are appropriate; however, it may be better to substitute other descriptors for "aggressive," "wild," and "bad tempered." Ginger is a horse that acts as an...
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Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker uses words in a non-literal way to create an exaggeration. Dr. Wheeler gives us the example, "His thundering shout could split rocks"...
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Black Beauty
In Chapter 9 of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, Merrylegs is brought back into the stable by James, who says to him, "There, you rogue, mind how you behave yourself, or we shall get into trouble."...
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Voice can be defined as the "unique personality of a literary work," and this personality reflects the writer's own unique personality ("Voice," Literary Devices). All writers have unique...
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Black Beauty
In Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, the title character's first home was his place of birth. He was born on a farm and raised on a "large pleasant meadow." He notes...
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Black Beauty
Aside from a few flashback-like sequences in Anna Sewell's novel, Black Beauty's story is relayed in chronological order, starting from the days he was a colt and ending with a brief reference to...
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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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In chapter 42 of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, Polly comes into the stable yard to inform Jerry that a politician named Mr. B-- has asked for Jerry's vote and "wants to hire [Jerry's] cab for the...
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Darkie is the first name under which we encounter the equine protagonist of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. In the first chapter, Darkie is living with his mother in a pleasant meadow. The meadow...
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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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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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Most of The Earl's interaction with Reuben was through York. Reuben possessed a temperament that moved him closer to drink. This is something that is noted in the text in how Reuben had a "love...
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When summarizing anything, it's important to be able to zero in on exactly what's important. To be able to do that, think about the characters that are present, what events take place, and...
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Black Beauty is the moral director of Anna Sewell's animal autobiography. As narrator, he tells about incidents which illustrate the need for understanding and kindness toward horses. For example,...
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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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The event to which you are undoubtedly referring happens in chapter two of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. The horse narrator of the story, here named Darkie, is two years old when he sees a terrible...
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An event that always has been my favorite from the story of Black Beauty is the when Beauty meets Merry Legs and Ginger at Britwick Hall. Merry Legs is a delightful little cart pony and Ginger is...
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The main purpose of Anna Sewell's writing of her novel Black Beauty was to bring public attention to the cruel practice in Victorian times of the restrictive "bearing rein" which forced horses'...