2024年5月10日发(作者：)

初中英文阅读,黑骏马,人物分析

"Animals deserve our kindness, sympathy and understanding,"that is what

Anna Sewell-the author of Black Beauty-wanted to convince her readers. Thanks to

Sewell,I now think about the animal-human relationship from both the human and

the animal's point of view.

The inspiration for Anna Sewell's novel was drawn from her own relationship

with horses.

Anna Sewell was born on March 20th,1820 in Norfolk, England and was

crippled while still veryyoung. Due to her disability, she relied on horse-drawn

carriages and grew to love horses as a result. She also became appalled by the

careless and cruel treatment horses often received from humans and determined

to write a bookoo In the second year of work on the book, she was told that she

had only eighteen months to live, but she persevered in order "to induce kindness,

sympathy and an understanding [ of the ] treatment of horses."Five years later, she

was still working on Black Beauty, her only book. Unfortunately, Sewell died a few

months after publication and never learned of the book' s huge success. Black

Beauty formed an impassioned plea for animal rights at a time when such a notion

had been dismissed as ridiculous.

The novel portrayed the real condition of working horses living in Britain

during the Victorian Era. In that time period, the wealthy thought that their horses

were treated well because they never stepped into the stable. In order to call

people's attention to horses' hard life, Sewell tells the story through the

first-person narrative voice of a horse. This innovative personification of an animal

made the book a real success. Readers heard the stories straight from the horse'

smouth, literally, as an animal spoke of extremes of joy and suffering. People were

shocked by the truth exposed by the novel and changed their attitudes towards

animals.

Sewell formed the novel with three kinds of characters: Black Beauty, Ginger

and other farm animals. Through their different experiences,I saw similarly painful

lives led by the animals. This method made the earnest appeal for animal rights

become more and more persuasive.

As a domestic animal, Black Beauty was continuously sold from one family to

another. Overthe years Beauty enjoyed good masters but also endured mean ones.

Sometimes, he was cared for and at other times tortured, In the end, everything

turns out all right in a story that is so tender and yet meaningful, His story was so

vivid that caught the readers' heart. The novel brought people laughter and tears

and also enlightened them to understand animals at the same time.

Animals cannot speak so understanding is significant to them. Once, for

example, Beauty was drawing the carriage to a wooden bridge. The bridge was

flooded out in the river and John, the groom, was not aware that it was cracked.

But the quickly realized that something was wrong because of Beauty's abnormal

behavior. Momentarily,a man shouted to them,"Stop!

The bridge is broken in the middle. If you come across, you' lI fall in the

river!"Beauty had saved John. However, if John had not tried to understand what

Beauty wanted to tell him, there would definitely have been an accident.I learnt

from the story that understanding animals is not only essential to them but is also

beneficial to us ourselves.