Black Beauty

Ginger dies from neglect, maltreatment, and losing the will to live. In Black Beauty, she becomes a London cab horse, suffering from a bad cough, swollen joints, and extreme weight loss. Her...

The conflict in Black Beauty involves Beauty's struggle against cruel owners and harsh conditions, reflecting a broader horse vs. man conflict. The resolution occurs when Beauty, after enduring...

Merrylegs's experience with the boys in Black Beauty is very unpleasant. They use hazel sticks for riding whips and beat the horse much too hard. Eventually, Merrylegs rears up and lets them slip...

Black Beauty follows the life of a horse in 19th-century England, exploring themes of animal welfare, empathy, and the impact of human actions on animals. The plot centers on Black Beauty's...

Black Beauty is widely regarded as a wonderful piece of literature. Its appeal lies in its engaging and accessible prose, universal themes, and the unique perspective of a horse. Anna Sewell's novel...

Black Beauty was different from the other colts because he was "well-bred and well-born."

Black Beauty's mother, Duchess, advises him to be gentle, avoid bad habits, and always do his work well. She warns him against picking up the rough manners of lower-class horses and emphasizes the...

Black Beauty's owners in Anna Sewell's novel include Farmer Grey, Squire Gordon of Birtwick Manor, the Earl of W--- of Earlshall Park, an unnamed livery stable master, Mr. Barry of Bath, Jeremiah...

Key events in Black Beauty include Beauty's early life on a farm, his time as a carriage horse for wealthy owners, his harsh treatment by various cruel masters, and his eventual rescue by kind owners...

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...

Black Beauty gets sick because the new stable boy, Joe Green, fails to properly care for him after an exhausting ride to fetch the doctor. Joe does not cover Beauty with a warm cloth, leaving him to...

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...

The rising action in "Black Beauty" includes the horse's early life in a loving home and the series of owners who treat him well. The falling action follows Black Beauty's decline into hardship and...

Black Beauty in Anna Sewell's story is a noble and gentle horse who narrates his life experiences. Through his perspective, he reveals the harsh realities of animal mistreatment and advocates for...

In Black Beauty, Black Beauty has a total of ten homes. His journey includes living with Farmer Grey, Squire Gordon, Earlshall Park, a livery stable, Mr. Barry, Jerry Barker, a corn dealer, another...

In the simplest of terms, I think that Sewell's work tries to bring forth the point that animals are creatures that feel pain, love, and joy.  They are not objects who lack the sensibilities...

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...

Ginger in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is characterized by her fiery spirit and rebellious behavior. Her identity is shaped by a history of harsh treatment and neglect, which makes her wary of humans...

The main problem in Black Beauty is how Beauty, the horse, can overcome the difficulties imposed by various owners. The novel illustrates that horses respond to human treatment and stresses the need...

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...

Polly advises Jerry to follow what's called The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Polly tells her husband about poor old Dinah Brown. She's just received a letter...

Black Beauty learns some important lessons at Birtwick Park, including that he must live a life of service to humans without the freedom he once enjoyed. He also learns that humans are sometimes...

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...

Black Beauty faces difficulties such as cruel caretakers, illness, injury, and loss of freedom. He overcomes them by befriending other horses, reminiscing about his youth, and hoping for better days....

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....

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...

This is a difficult question to answer, as nowhere in the book is it explicitly stated what exact breed Black Beauty is. We are, however, given some descriptions of his appearance, such as the fact...

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...

Black Beauty employs various literary techniques and elements, including first-person narrative, anthropomorphism, and vivid imagery. The story is told from the perspective of the horse, Black...

In the novel that did more for ending cruelties to horses than any other publication, Black Beauty is sold to a corn dealer after Jerry the cab driver becomes ill, but the dark stables harm his...

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...

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 on...

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...

Black Beauty's refusal to cross the bridge changes the story in the sense that it saves the lives of John and Squire Gordon.

Readers learn that Black Beauty's grandfather was a racehorse who won the cup at Newmarket and that his grandmother had the sweetest temper of any horse his mother ever knew.

The narrator of Black Beauty is the horse itself, as is indicated by the story's subtitle "the autobiography of a horse." The "I" who is speaking in the quotation, however, is James, who is...

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...

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...

The journey back to the park was more difficult for Beauty because Beauty was already exhausted and now had to do the return trip with a heavier and worse rider.

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,...

Negative traits and characters in Black Beauty include cruelty and neglect towards horses. Examples include Skinner, who overworks his horses, and Nicholas Skinner, who is notorious for his brutal...

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...

The cows and the sheep help Black Beauty by teaching him to overcome his fear of trains.

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...

Dick Towler was in the stable to put down some hay.  He had been told to do so by the under ostler, and reminded to lay down his pipe first, because of John Manly's rule "never to allow a pipe...

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,...

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."...

Starting in chapter 18 of the novel and reading the excerpt you cited, it would be difficult to discern who John Manly is. This character is first mentioned in chapter four, when Black Beauty is...

Mrs. Blomefield is the vicar's wife. She and her husband have a large family of boys and girls, who often play with Miss Jessie and Flora, Squire Gordon's children. Whenever the children get...

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...