Imagine it roaming the great plains, the wind in your hair, running as fast as you can, you’re loved one at you’re side, as free as you can be with nobody around to tell you what to do. That is the life of a wild horse, so many people wish they could have a life like that, but yet it is not so. “The Black Stallion and the Red Mare” by Gladys Frances Lewis teaches a person how one boys decision can affect the lives of many, not just humans but animals as well.
Decisions are a big part of everyday life, you may not think of it but you make hundreds of decision each day. You make a decision when you choose your coffee, what to eat, what to wear those are all decision of everyday life but some decisions are more important than others. Like the decision to save some bodies life. “The Black Stallion and the Red Mare” is about a boy who lives on a farm with his family, he finds a herd of wild horses, and he has a duty to tell his father so he can catch them to be sold. The boy has to make a life changing decision.
Wild horses roam in 11 western states that include Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, California, Colorado, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, North Dakota and New Mexico. It is likely that there are fewer than 25,000 horses left on 34 million acres of public land managed by the BLM. Horses were brought into the Americas in 1519 when Cortez came from Spain. As more and more settlers from Spain and other European countries came, they brought horses with them.
This story reminds me of a book I am reading in Language Arts “A Day No Pigs Would Die” by Robert Newton Peck. This book is about a boy who skips school stumbles upon the neighbor’s prized cow giving birth it was having trouble. He stops and thinks should he help the cow, yet did he know that decision would change his life. Even though he made a good decision that had a bad conscience, he helped the cow but it wasn’t happy it injured him very much, biting him all the way down to the bone. I know what you’re thinking good decisions often have good consciences but this is not always so, if you see and injured animal do you help it, if you do that would be a good decision but if it attacks you that would be a bad conscience. In the story “The Black Stallion and the Red Mare” his decision will affect the lives of many horses, ether way he goes with his decision there will be bad conscience.
Decision will always be a part of everyday life, some decision can change a person forever, in “The Black Stallion and the Red Mare” by Gladys Frances Lewis teaches a person how one boys decision can change his life forever. Free plays a big part in the story, because the horses freedom is taken away from them and they may never no freedom again.
