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Examples Of Kindness In Black Beauty

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The book Black Beauty by Anna Sewell tells the story of a horse named Black Beauty by a few of his owners. He grows up with good owners: a farmer, then the Birtwicks, but then gets changed into the hands of owners who are more cruel, who get worse as time goes on. He then finds a good owner in Jerry Barker, who treats him well yet must work him hard as a cab-horse. Eventually, Jerry has to sell him, where he finds the worst of his owners, until being bought and recovered, then finally sold to people who knew him as Black Beauty, and determined to never sell him. The theme of kindness runs through the entire book. Kindness is when someone thinks about the feelings of everyone else (not discriminating between looks, actions, or social status), and makes a conscious, continuous, and wholehearted effort to treat them well. Kindness is when people treat everyone with respect. In Black Beauty, the creatures who are shown as ‘good ones’ are kind to cruel and kind people alike. On page 8, Black Beauty’s mother told him not to say that it served a man right to die when he was hunting and injured his horse (her other son), showing that she was kind to everyone, even those who were mean to someone close to her. Some people would think it was okay, as long as they didn’t insult them to their face, but Black Beauty’s mother shows how kind she is by not doing that. Since she also doesn’t reprimand the other colts for saying those things, she is kind to them as well, even though they are

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