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Black Beauty By Anna Sewell: A Literary Analysis
In this course, I have learned how an author creates a sense of realism in fiction. Some works of fiction deal with real-life problems or issues, such as mental health, poverty, violence, racism, addiction, and other issues. Presenting these problems in a way that feels realistic to the reader in a fictitious work requires a skillful writer, and can have a greater emotional impact on the reader. One of the realistic issues presented in the novel Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell, is the treatment of horses. Black Beauty goes to great lengths to explain the different living conditions of horses and the different ways they were treated, both the good and the bad. Black Beauty’s first home was Birtwick Park. Beauty talks about Birtwick fondly throughout

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