Story · Britain · 1877
Pass it on
Black Beauty
65Worth an evening.
The horse tells it, and the kind hands don't cancel the cruel ones.
The review
Anna Sewell lets the horse tell it. He passes from kind hands to cruel ones. The work of a horse is treated as a life, not a machine. The whip is the thing the book is against. A child can read it, and then wants to know why anyone would hurt an animal that was doing the job.
I don't dress that up. It is a child's book with a bill for cruelty, from 1877. The kind hands are not the whole story, or there would be nothing to argue. If we read it this week, we stay long enough to meet the cruel hands, and we say the horse's work counts as a life.
Journal
Keep Black Beauty in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 8Industry
The horse's work is the story, treated as a life and not a machine.
- 4Household
No marriage or child; his life is which hands he is passed to.
- 7Piety
The book wants the whip refused, which is a conscience about cruelty.
- 5Courage
Kind hands keep him; cruel hands can spend a life that cannot quit.
- 6Republic
How a working horse is used is the duty this child's book argues.
- 7Temperance
The whip is the want the book refuses to treat as a tool.
- 7Truth
The horse tells it, so the cruelty is charged to the hands that did it.
- 8Stewardship
A child is left a horse's working life and a bill for the whip.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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