Black Beauty Review

Title                                      : Black Beauty

Writer                                   : Anna Sewell

Page                                     : 245

Publisher and Year                : Scholastic Inc., 2001

Genre                                   : Animal, Fiction.

Loyalty, Survival, and Kindness

Black beauty is a fiction novel which tells about a black horse’s life. Black Beauty is a male horse, and has a white star-coat in his forehead.

When he was a clot, he has been well bred and well cared by his master. After he was a horse, he was sold to Squire Gordon and John Manly as the groom. The new master and the groom were nice, kindly and thoughtful person, just like his previous master. He lived there for 3 years. But one day, the master’s mistress got an ill that made the master has to sell Black Beauty.

After that, Black Beauty has many new owners. Some of them were nice person, and the others were not. He has been a cab-horse, and even driven by a drunken fellow. But he kept his spirit and did what the best.In his journey, he met a lot of horses, and made friends. Some of his bestfriend were Ginger, who has been ill-used by her previous master, and Captain, who was a war horse.

The weakness of this heart touching novel is, sometimes the name in the dialogue makes reader confused -wether it’s human or horse who is talking-. The strength of this novel is, the writer’s point of view. Anna Sewell put herself as a horse and succeed makes the readers fell like a horse too.

Moral value of this novel is, “Grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways, do your work with a good will” (Anna Sewell, p.2). I do recommend this amazing novel for everyone who’d like to learn about loyalty, survival, and kindness story, even it come from a horse.

D.K.D