Abrams’s Super 8 mimicked the unique quality of Spielberg’s best-loved films, that of childlike wonder and visceral emotions, pitched on a grand scale. Virtually serving as a surrogate career capstone, J.J. So if you love World War I, and horses, try picking up and reading War Horse.For the better part of 40 years, Steven Spielberg has created some of the most overwhelming sensory experiences moviegoers have ever known. I found this a nice read and a nice companion to Black Beauty. The war that Joey took part in was a frightening one and isn't for young children. This is a nice story to read to anyone whom loves horses and there point of view on things. The two remain together for a long time, always partnered up and never too far away from the other.
Joey also makes close friends with a fellow war horse called Topthorn, a tall, black stallion that seems a lot like Ginger. His life is hard, but he does the best he can under many different owners, the majority of them kind and caring, from going to the English to the Germans themselves, we see the innocence of the Deutschlanders struggle to fight the war against the British and the French. Joey ends up being sold into war, where he learns the task of bearing men through the machine fire of war, dragging the dead away in carts and even being used to pull the cannons to the front lines. But we aren't focusing on Black Beauty here. The stories end similar, with different twist. The story starts out with the description of a painting of a horse, and than jumps into the horse painted in the picture, Joey, who is bought by a farmer and brought home to Albert, who loves and cares for him similar to Joe Green did in Black Beauty. I love the fact that this book comes directly from the "horses point of view," which is similar strikingly familiar to Black Beauty by Anna Sewell as to compared to Michael Morpurgo's War Horse.
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I decided to pick up War Horse after the nice, new cover caught my eye in a local bookstore and immediately brought it home, cracked open the cover, and allowed myself to be swept off into Joey's story. Are they heavy-handed, hard, tender, kind, caring? What is it like with each type of person? What is it like to be a horse? But the best lesson is that horses are no longer used in battle! Joey tells us about the people who tend him. You will never look at a horse the same way again. The next day he told me, "This is a great book." He was already half-way finished. When he saw "War Horse," he wanted it at once. Last week a fourth-grader asked me for a really good book to read. How that comes about is purely contrived, but welcome by a reader weary of the horrors of war for both man and horse. Of course, you must know that Albert is re-united with Joey. What transpires is an incredible and beautiful moment in the midst of an insane war. Two rolls of barbed wire separate the land from the trenches. The most horrifying scene occurs when Joey is totally alone and runs and runs from the sound of cannons until he is trapped in No Man's Land, a barren area between the French and English on one side and the Germans on the other. Because these soldiers are dead tired themselves and also starving, they are not as attentive to the horses. Joey's worse experience comes when he and Topthorn and others must pull the artillery. What Joey and Topthorn face as part of the team to pull the hospital cart to the battle front over and over is made right by kind treatment their German masters give to their wounds and injuries, and treat their fatigue at the end of day. Joey and his equal, Topthorn, a huge black Arabian, survive, only to be taken as prisoners by the Germans. All but two die in the next battle this cavalry faces. The insanity of matching a cavalry of horses and riders with sabers against soldiers with rifles and machine guns has to be one of the most insane moments in war history!! One-fourth of the horses are killed in the first battle. When his father sells the horse to the calvary for service in World War I, Albert swears to join when he is old enough and find Joey. Albert is his 15-year-old human who trains and loves him. Joey, a gorgeous bay with four white stocking forelegs and a white cross on his forehead, is the War Horse. Because of descriptions of grueling labor and unsound working conditions for the horses, the book is best directed toward fourth grade and up. Told from the viewpoint of the horse, the story can draw in the most reluctant reader, as children often feel more empathy for animals than people. "War Horse" is a story of courage and endurance by horse and man, conveyed through the destruction that is war.
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