Writing in the Blogg:
- A short introduction (3-4 sentences) to the book (beware of spoilers!).
- Your opinion of the book. Explain!
- Describe the language. How do you feel about reading a story from the horses point of view?
Writing task to hand in to Anna in Fronter:
One of the characters (you choose which one) in the novel tells the story from his/her point of view. Thoughts and feelings about what happened. (400-500 words)
Discussion in group (with Anna, week 18):
- The plot, the characters, the places and the time of the novel.
- Animal rights. How do we treat animals in general, in the food industry?
- Do animals have feelings?
- Compare with other similar stories/films
Black Beauty
SvaraRaderaBlack Beauty is written from a horses point of view. You follow him as he speaks his thoughts and describes the different environments he encounters through the book. Each owner treats him in a different way, either good or bad, which lead to numerous of events, even tragic ones.
My Opinion
At first it was difficult to understand the language since it’s written in traditional English but once you’re used to it, it’s pretty easy. It happens a lot of things through the whole book which keeps it interesting and not that boring. He had a lot of different owners which made me have a hard time remembering all of them and their names, but that could just be me and my bad memory. There were no problem reading from a horses point of view, it was rather easy and not at all confusing as some people may think.
introduction:
SvaraRaderaBlack Beauty is a book written by a british writer called Anna Sewell. The book is written from a horse point of view and describes the tough life of a beautiful horse called Black Beauty. He moves around to many different owners and meet some fantastic people, but he also gets very ill treated by some people.
My opinion:
This book is one of the most well written books i have ever read. The fact that Black Beauty is written from a horse point of view only makes it even better. I think that Black Beauty opened a lot of eyes for animal cruelty and especially for the way that horses get treated. Even though this book is written in 1877 and the language is quite complicated this book is still just as popular as it used to be. I loved this book from the start to the very end. This book never gets you bored because it contains loads of different things, one minute it can be full of action and drama, which makes it impossible to stop reading, and the next minute this book makes you feel sad and angry over the way that some horses get treated.
Describe the language, how do you feel about reading a story from the horse point of view?:
The language is traditional old english, but i thought that when you got into the story it wasn’t very hard to understand the language.
I think that it was interesting to read a book from a horse point of view, it makes you understand how animals feel in a way that you can’t understand by reading a book about a human talking about Black Beauty.
Black Beauty
SvaraRaderaBlack beauty is a very deep book. The book does so you understand how the horses feel and think. Is´t a very sad story when you relieze how many horses who get´s ill use. In the book you follow Black Beautys life from that he was born.
He get´s a loot of experience when he have to move a lot and change home. Black Beauty is a fantastic horse whit a very good temper. He always das he´s best if he has to wear the bearing rein or if he get´s whip by the driver. It´s a very exciting story then it happen a lot of things. Black Beaty puts in front of many tests and many difficult situations.