Black beauty p

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Transcript of Black beauty p

ANNA SEWELL

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they can’t

tell us how they feel, but they don’t suffer less because they

have no words.”

HISTORICAL BACK GROUND

• Victorian England.

• Usage of animals.

• Treatment of animals.

DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NOVEL

• Classic novel.

• A favorite children's book.

• Fictional autobiography.

• Anthropomorphism.

WHY BLACK BEAUTY AS A NAME?

STAGE ONE: HIS BIRTH

• Grey’s Farm.

• His mother.

• “ I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never

learn bad ways; you do your work with a good will, left

your feet up well when you trot, and you never bite or

kick even in play.”

• My point of view and the idea of classes.

SECOND STAGE: BEAUTY AND A

FASHIONABLE WOMAN

• Bearing reins

BEARING REINS

THIRD STAGE: SHIFTING POINT

• Accident.

• Legs cut.

• Farewell of his best friend.

• Sell.

• My analysis and a basic theme.

LAST STAGE: THERE’S ALWAYS A HOME

• Reflection of a human’s life “ Realism”.

• My troubles are all over, and I’m at home; and often

before I am quite awake, I fancy I still in the orchard,

standing with my friends, under the apple trees.”

BEAUTY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER