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Concetti Chiave

  • "Black Beauty" is a novel by Anna Sewell, focusing on cruelty towards horses.
  • The story follows Black Beauty, a horse who experiences various owners and conditions.
  • Initially sold to a kind coachman, Black Beauty meets other horses with diverse personalities.
  • Despite good care, Black Beauty faces challenges, including harsh treatment from some owners.
  • The narrative explores themes of kindness, resilience, and the impact of human behavior on animals.

"Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse" is a novel written by the British author Anna Sewell. The book was published in 1867 and the main theme is cruelty towards horses.

Indice

  1. La vita di Black Beauty
  2. Esperienze con Ginger
  3. La vendita e nuovi padroni
  4. Il viaggio a Londra

La vita di Black Beauty

The story is about the life of the Black Beauty horse. He lives in a prairie with his mother Duchess and six other restless foals. At the age of 4, his master sold him to the coachman John Manly, in the meadows of Mr. Gordon. At the stables, he meets a small, friendly pony, Merrylegs, who tells him how he works and how the character of the other horses is.

Esperienze con Ginger

A few days later, the day came, for Black Beauty, to try to transport a carriage, along with another mare, Ginger.

He was not very happy because she said he was very sullen. But Ginger said to Black Beauty that she was affectionate, only occasionally nervous because she had really cruel masters in the past.

Things kept going well, the owners took great care of the horse, and he went out of his way to make them proud.

La vendita e nuovi padroni

But one autumn day, her mistress fell seriously ill, and Mr. Gordon and his wife had to leave for a warmer city.

All the horses were sold to different neighbors, while Black Beauty and Ginger, went together by the Wodsworth family.
The place was comfortable; the stalls were big and clean, there was plenty of food and the owner was a kind man. The only problem was his wife. A cruel woman who forced her husband to put the bearing on the horses every day. It was uncomfortable and hurt a lot.

Black Beauty had a good teaching from her mother when she was a child; he comes from a noble family and has always had the best of himself, in all situations.

But it is not like that for Ginger, and when the lady got into the carriage, she began to kick wildly, and the coachman York fell. So the mistress ordered to take Ginger away, and to have the carriages transported to Black Beauty, with her new partner Max.

Il viaggio a Londra

One day later, Mr. York had to leave for London and entrusted the horse to the coachman Reuben Smith; honest and kind man, but also of business and therefore often drunk.

In fact, one afternoon he rode Beauty to the city and left him at the stables, telling the groom that he would come to pick it up for 4 p.m. The boy checked the horse and saw that an iron in the front leg had melted and could not move in those conditions.

Domande da interrogazione

  1. ¿Cuál es el tema principal de "Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse"?
  2. El tema principal del libro es la crueldad hacia los caballos.

  3. ¿Cómo fue la vida de Black Beauty al principio de la historia?
  4. Al principio, Black Beauty vivía en una pradera con su madre y otros potros, y fue vendido a un cochero llamado John Manly.

  5. ¿Qué problema enfrentó Black Beauty con la familia Wodsworth?
  6. El problema fue la esposa del dueño, quien obligaba a poner un arnés incómodo y doloroso a los caballos.

  7. ¿Qué incidente ocurrió con el cochero Reuben Smith?
  8. Reuben Smith, aunque honesto y amable, a menudo estaba borracho y dejó a Black Beauty en condiciones inadecuadas, con una herradura derretida en la pata delantera.

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