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BLACK BEAUTY Anna Sewell ABOUT THE AUTHERCHARACTERSPLOT INTRODUCTIONFILM ADAPTATIONSMY OPINION Beauty And Anna Sewell Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. Anna Sewell was born in Norfolk, England. She never married or had children. In visits to European spas（礦泉養(yǎng)療地）, she met many writers, artists. Her only book was Black Beauty, written between 1871 and 1877 in their house at Old Catton. During this time, her health was declining, and she could barely get out of bed. Her dearly-loved mother often had to help her in her illness and assist her in writing the novel. The book broke records for sales and is the “sixth best seller in the English language. characters Black BeautyThe narrator of the story, a handsome black horse. He begins his career as a carriage（四輪馬車(chē)） horse for wealthy people but when he breaks his knees (develops scars on his knees-anatomically, wristsafter a bad fall) he is no longer considered presentable enough and is put to much harder work. He passes through the hands of a series of owners, some cruel, some kind. He always tries his best to serve humans despite the circumstance. GingerA companion of Beautys at a beautiful farm, she is named for her colour and her habit of biting(尖銳刺人的), which is often how the spice, ginger, is described. Ginger is a more aggressive horse. Beauty and Ginger meet for the last time as broken-down cab horses in London, and later a cart with a dead horse (who Beauty believes is Ginger), passes by Beauty. Mr Joseph Greene (Joe) - A kind boy who befriends Beauty. At last, when Beauty was old ,Joe met him again and promised that he would never leave him. Plot introduction The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir（回憶錄） told by a horse named Black Beauty beginning with his carefree days as a colt （小雄馬）on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. http:/ Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beautys life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses. The book has been adapted into film and television several times, including: Black Beauty (1921/II) Black Beauty (1946) Black Beauty (1971) The Adventures of Black Beauty (TV series) (1972) Black Beauty (1994 film). OPINION There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham. THANK YOU