Equine lovers

Equine Love <3

"I read that G-d made man, and he made horses and all the other beasts, and as soon as He had made them he made a day of rest...He must have known what was good for them, and I am sure it is good for me (Sewell, 149)."


"My master knew very little about horses, but he treated me well, and I should have had a good and easy place but for circumstances of which he was ignorant (Sewell, 121)."The master-horse relationships that Black Beauty had and encountered were varied, especially between the ignorant master and the knowledgeable one. For example, one non ignorant man says, "Every man's right and every beast's right (Sewell, 152)." By saying this he is leveling the playing field. There is not such a hierarchy between non-ignorant gentlemen and their horses, "but it seems to me that the innocent always suffer (Sewell, 181)." Jerry, one of Black Beauty's masters says this to the governor after one of his other horses, Captain, was hurt by a drunk driver. It seems that the masters who understood their horses always made insightful comments and were depicted deeply and fully whereas the cruel and ignorant masters were depicted as evil and one dimensional. I thought this to be very interesting that these were Black Beauty's observations, and how within the touch of a hand he could tell the type of person that might be. Black Beauty was very grateful for gentlemen because, as Jerry said,"if a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without (Sewell, 153)."

Ignorance and Apathy go hand in hand