Emma C.’s Reviews > Black Beauty > Status Update

Black Beauty has recently been moved to a new home. Black Beauty’s new owner was very kind and sweet. His new job was to be a taxi. In this time period taxies were horse drawn carriages. Although Black Beauty has never done taxing before she liked her job and was exceptional at it.

In my novel I would change the part where Black Beauty got separated form her friend Ginger. They were such good friend and have been through so much together. I hope they will see each other again one day.

My book left off when poor Black Beauty got into an accident. A drunk driver was controlling him when they got into a crash with a carriage killing the driver Black Beauty feel of the floor. Help unfortunately didn’t come till sunrise.

Black Beauty ran so fast and trotted for miles on end. If she went any slower someone would have died. Risking his life to save someone else’s.

He is perfect except fo one thing he has a drinking problem. After drinking to much during a party he wasn’t able to drive home. His boss furious and embarrassed he got fired. Later he was rehired and has not touched a drop of wine since that night.

I left off reading about a man called Reuben Smith who has recently come to take care of Black Beauty. According to what Black Beauty has heard in the stables Reuben Smith is a fantastic name. He is very clever with the horses and treaty them right.

One question I would ask is if you where a horse what would you want your job to be, a hunter, jumper, farmer, racer, and why? Another question I would ask is if you were a master would you think of your horses as your friend of slave and why would you think this?

After Black Beauty’s mistress sadly got ill they had to leave the area. After this sad news Black Beauty was sent to to another home. There she meant some friends named Ginger and Marrylegs. She was very happy there however, she was a little mad about the tight neck braces on the carriage. Still she was very happy and after awhile it felt like home.

This shows significance because even though horses work for you they still deserve to be treated well. Along with that they don’t deserve to be wiped just because they won’t jump a fence that is too high for them. That goes for humans too. Just because you might be someone’s boss you can’t trust them like your so much better than they are.

One day he was out ridding without the carriage. Him and the stable hand ran into a boy abusing a young pony. After they helped the boy correct his wrong the stable boy talked to his boss. As they talked John brought up an incident that happened a long time ago. John said the after the incident his teacher said “...how hard-hearted and cowardly it was to hurt the week and the helpless”(pg 66).