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THE HORSE WHISPERER
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Alice Tärk, 9b.
Title: The Horse Whisperer
Author : Nicholas Evans
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year : 1991
Number of pages: 97
Genre : fiction
The setting : Takes place in Montana
The Time Period : 1995
Goal: Some are going to be okay, some are not.
The main character is Grace , who is thirteen years old and lives with her mother and father in New York . She is a usual teenager until she loses her leg and her best friend in a serious riding accident . After that she is sad and truly desperate hating the entire world.
Her mother Annie is an Englishwoman who had lost his dad and wanted to prove her whole life that she is good in everything: as an important journalist in a fashionable magazine, as a mother and as a husband . But her job is number one and she does not find a lot time for her daughter and husband.
Tom Brooker learned a special skill with horses from his father and grandfather . He is called the horse whisperer. He helps horses that have problems with people.
The book is about Grace and her horse Pilgrim . They are both badly injured in a riding accident where they crushed into a truck on an icy road . Her mother wants Grace to get better. She also wants to save the horses life because she is sure that the lives of her daughter and the horse are tied in a way she can’t explain .
So she hears about a man called the horse whisperer, who is probably the only man in the world who could help her, her daughter and the horse. Tom Broker comes to New York and sadly has to say that she can’t do anything because the horse is never going to be okay. But Annie does not accept that and rides 2000 miles to Montana with Grace and Pilgrim to get help from Tom.
Grace is sure that she never wants to ride again : especially with Pilgrim. She is sure that the accident was her fault because she could not get her friend Judith and her horse Gulliver away from the road before the truck came . But after meeting Joe who is son of a local farmer she quietly becomes to get better and in time she is ready to try riding again. But will Grace be brave enough to ride Pilgrim again one day?
Tom Brooker has to do some serious work with Pilgrim. He did not want to do it but he could not say no to Annie, that lovely lady with red hair and the most beautiful green eyes he had ever seen . And Annie had come so far to get help. Although in the end Pilgrim will let Tom near him but that is all. Anyone else can’t touch him. So Tom has to try another way and that isn’t very nice to see.
Conflict in this book is between Grace and her horse. Will they ever to be able to trust each other ? At first she is sure that she is never going to ride but after trying with other horses Grace thoughts that she is ready to ride Pilgrim. But that is not so easy . The horse still doesn’t let Grace near himself . But in the end the horse accepts and she can ride her loved horse again.
I actually did not notice a hidden message in the book or maybe I just did not understand it. Maybe the author wanted to say that nothing would go as people expect and that anything can happen . In particular book Grace almost died and also the horse, a married women fell in love with the mysterious horse whisperer and in the end: one of the main characters dies . And Annie who has always thought that her job is the most important thing in the world does not care about it on one moment and quits .
The book was also about relationships – between mother and daughter, people and horses and of course between man and woman . The book is a great example that love can come on the most unexpected moment. Annie – a big city girl would have ever guessed that she would fell in love with a farmer from Montana when she is thousands of miles away from New York.
The strength of the book is certainly the surprising ending. I was absolutely sure that everyone is going to live happily ever after – until the last page. I would really like to know what happens next and I would definitely read the sequel to know what is going to happen with Annie, Grace and Pilgrim.
The weakness of the book was that it was a little too easy to read. Usually I notice the hidden message but I did not found it this time. Some places were also a little boring to read when the author was describing places too long.
But in the end I was truly surprised after reading the book because as I don’t like horses a lot I just thought that it is a stupid book about a horse. But it was not bad at all. Actually it was quite interesting and I am thinking about watching the movie also. But still it was not so good that I would like to read it over and over like some books. But when people are interested in fiction book it is a great book to read.