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This is in response to Natalie's assignment for The Writer's Club Workshop.
This takes me back to my childhood. It's an event that has bothered me for years and may seem stupid to others. I don't know.
I loved the story of Black Beauty. I realize Anna Sewell wrote this as a protest to the cruelty of horses in the name of "Fashion." Beauty is a well bred horse who goes from the lush pastures of his farm to a wonderful home with the well-to-do, to another home with not-so-thoughtful owners who used check reins (devises to hold carriage horse's heads very high as was the fashion) and the drunk son who beat his horses to the brink. Beauty was auctioned and bought and sold several times and the story revolves around his slow descent into ruin. He recovers and ends up in a great home at last, but poor Ginger, a beautiful thoroughbred mare a stablemate and friend dies the most horrid of deaths--worked and beaten to death by a carter. It is one of the most heart wrenching scenes in literature (besides the dream scene in Crime and Punishment and that was just a dream)
I've still never gotten over that scene. I wish she could have changed the fate of that horse. NO--she should have changed the fate of that horse. It was just so unfair.
So there. You have a childhood memory of a beloved children's tale and the sadness that it brought to a horse crazy kid.
Pat
This is in response to Natalie's assignment for The Writer's Club Workshop.
This takes me back to my childhood. It's an event that has bothered me for years and may seem stupid to others. I don't know.
I loved the story of Black Beauty. I realize Anna Sewell wrote this as a protest to the cruelty of horses in the name of "Fashion." Beauty is a well bred horse who goes from the lush pastures of his farm to a wonderful home with the well-to-do, to another home with not-so-thoughtful owners who used check reins (devises to hold carriage horse's heads very high as was the fashion) and the drunk son who beat his horses to the brink. Beauty was auctioned and bought and sold several times and the story revolves around his slow descent into ruin. He recovers and ends up in a great home at last, but poor Ginger, a beautiful thoroughbred mare a stablemate and friend dies the most horrid of deaths--worked and beaten to death by a carter. It is one of the most heart wrenching scenes in literature (besides the dream scene in Crime and Punishment and that was just a dream)
I've still never gotten over that scene. I wish she could have changed the fate of that horse. NO--she should have changed the fate of that horse. It was just so unfair.
So there. You have a childhood memory of a beloved children's tale and the sadness that it brought to a horse crazy kid.
Pat
posted by Unknown at 7:04 PM
2 Comments:
Just saw your comment on Carlotte Dillon's blog.
In case you don't already know, she made it out safely.
Black Beauty is one of the best book i've ever read.....
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