![]() ![]() His 1982 novel War Horse imagines the conflict through the eyes of a. All around me, men cried and fell to the ground, and horses reared and screamed in an agony of fear and pain.” Flashing swords are nothing against machine guns, and graceful Joey turns out to be of more use as a cart horse than an officer’s mount. For childrens author Michael Morpurgo, the answer was to start as small as possible. He tells of an early skirmish: “The first terrible shells fell among us and the machine guns opened up. Joey and another thoroughbred horse, Topthorn, lead in a terrible cavalry charge towards the machine guns of. Reprinted to coincide with a hit stage adaptation in London, “War Horse” is now being made into a film by Steven Spielberg and will be staged at Lincoln Center in the spring.Īlthough a first-person animal narrator asks a lot of the reader, Joey’s voice - unsentimental and brave under fire - amplifies the emotional impact of the story. ![]() Albert, who is too young to enlist, vows to follow Joey into battle. Albert worked at a horse place waiting to find Joey and he did. ![]() Relationships, Theme, and Literary Terms Examples Terms in this set (21) Albert Albert was Joeys best friend and the one who took care of him. ![]() Michael Morpurgo’s superb 1982 young adult novel War Horse (Scholastic, paper, $6.99) follows Joey, a half-Thoroughbred farm horse, as he is separated from his 15-year-old owner, Albert, and taken to France in 1914 with a British cavalry unit. Created by rileymccardell A study guide for an assessment on War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. ![]()
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