Sunday, February 26, 2012
War Horse
War Horse is about the love between a horse, Joey, and his owner, a young boy named Albert. When Joey is sold to the army and dropped into the middle of the horrors of World War I, his heart aches for his owner Albert. Joey is trained to carry heavy equipment and to carry hurt soldiers off the battlefield, who are about the same age as Albert. As Joey witnesses the hardships of war, he wonders if he will ever meet Albert again, let alone if the war will ever end. Through the story Joey loses many friends that he has made throughout the war, and it is hard for such a young horse to work all day next to gunshots and piles of wounded soldiers. As the book progresses, the author, Michael Morpurgo, keeps the reader intrigued in the hunt for Joey and Albert to finally meet again. This is a great story that shows how miracles can happen if you don't give up.
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I haven't read the book but I have seen this movie. Have you? It made me cry, and I thought that it was a very sweet story about true friendship.
ReplyDeletei also read this book, i found it a little wierd how the view point was from a horse though, also it seemed fairly short to me. but overall i thought it was very well written with a good use of vocabulary. but i do want to see the movie as well to compare it to the book, to see how closely they followed the story.
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