Personal Narrative Essay: I Love A Horse

As the story “The Georges and the Jewels” A girl named Abby in the story always gives up and never wants to do things she can’t do. “But if, right when you let up on the reins, your horse put his head between his knees again and took off bucking, kicking higher and higher until he finally dropped you and went tearing off to the other end of the ring, well, you might lie there, as I did, with the wind knocked out of you and think about how nice it would be not to get back on, because that horse is just dedicated to bucking you off.” This quote explains that Abby gives up because she thought that the horse is just there for bucking her off and never got her things right. This is the quote that showed that Abby always gave up and never wanted to get back on the horse because the horse bucked her. This is the other quote that proves Abby changed.

Not long after, she made a second trip back to the south to get her brother and two other unknown men. On her third dangerous trip back to the south, Harriet Tubman went to save her husband but only to find out that he had married someone else while she was gone. Harriet Tubman returned to the south repeatedly to save other slaves, and every time she figured out more secretive ways to go unnoticed. She risked her family and most importantly her life to help others, but this just showed how much heart she had towards others. As Harriet Tubman said, “I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”

In the chapter Family History, Peak is on the phone with his mother. His mother says, “I quit because of you. ”(182) His mom is talking about how she quit her climbing career, not because she had fallen, but for Peak. When she fell off the climbing wall in her backyard it really opened up her eyes.

As we know, when Janie had to marry Logan she gets her dreams of a beautiful and happy marriage crushed. All the dreams she had for a happily ever after was washed away with marrying him “She knew now that marriage did not make love. / Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”

She gave more preference on money than her family and she declared that her husband was unlucky. Paul health was deteriorating day by day and his mother got worried about his health and she suggested spending some time to seaside but Paul did not agree as he had to know the name of winning horse. This evil incarnation had taken the life of Paul as he caught with brain fever when his mother came back from a party and she found him unconscious by occurring ‘Malabar’ , ‘Malabar’, the name of winning horse. Exactly, the horse, Malabar got victory but Paul found dead on the bed.

Since war brought the worst in him, he was just evil from the beginning. "She ain 't dead after all "(Carr 127). This quote is going right back to the rape of Geneva and the confederate soldier, he had broken Saranell arm and she was just pushing throughout the pain, matter of fact she had passed out from the pain letter. She had pushed through the pain to help her mother. Even though she was a eight year old girl knew what was right and stayed helpful and loving to her mom some what.

Meeting Homer Barron was her biggest change from her old self, because her father did not allow her be in any relationships, but she went out in public with Homer “driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable” (454). Consequently, this was only because she was living in her own reality and believed that Homer would be the one to marry her. Homer was “not a marrying man” (454) and would not marry Emily, but she refused to accept the denial of marriage from him, so she killed him to keep him with her forever. She stayed within her house to keep herself in the Old South. When she told the men to see Colonel Sartoris, she was not aware that “Colonel Sartoris had been dead for almost ten years” (452) at that point.

Imagine sitting on the bleachers cheering on the jockeys and their horses, but, multiple red flags are being set off. Thoroughbreds collapse on the ground from exhaustion and jockeys begin whipping the horses. This is no sport, this is a death run. Even the winners and losers do not matter in this “sport” when they stop bringing in the greens or receive an injury on the track.

She had taken to flight as soon as the gun went off. And when the others came back from looking for her, it was to find that the stable-lad, who in fact was only stunned, had already recovered and made off.” During the battle of the cowshed, Mollie didn’t do anything but flee. If we end up taking her out of the plot, we see the same things happening in the story, minus the abandonment propaganda, which could have been replaced with another kind. If we are just looking at the story itself, she has no real effect, but if we are looking at the reasons behind her being in the story to represent the aristocrats of the Russian Rebellion, then we see that she does carry some weight.

The protagonist seems to see a little of herself in the horse, Flora, who is free-spirited and excitable, so the day Flora is to be killed, she escapes from the hired hand and starts to run for the open gate. The men start to yell and tell the protagonist to close the gate, but instead, she opens the gate wider and allows the horse to escape. Since the horse escapes the men must chase her, and they allow the protagonist’s brother to go along while the protagonist waits at home with her mother. After this scene, Munro explains the protagonist no longer dreams of stories where she is the hero, but instead, she has accepted her role of a female who the hero saves. At the end of the story, the protagonist demonstrates an acceptance and realization of a complex and difficult world and her place in it, when she describes her father after he discovers that she opened the gate. Munro writes, “he spoke with resignation, even good humor the words which absolved and dismissed me for good.”

She pushed me up onto Jewel and my friends and sister walked out with their horses my sister had a bratty 13hh paint pony named King, Mia was riding the horse she liked name Prestige a 14.3hh bay pony, and her brother was riding Peanut a 15.1hh chestnut horse. We went on a trail ride which was like a longer version of the pony rides at fairs. We got back and I was terrified of getting off, but after I did I was in a lot of pain

She is a care less rider. Unless the owner of the ranch makes her and watches her take care of her horse, then she won’t. She usually puts her horse in the pasture without checking for food or water. In conclusion, the care less riders basically abuse their horses.

At around 6 o 'clock my mom and I would hook the horse trailer and hitch it to the bake of her truck to head to the horse action. Along the way she would tell me I’m story is on miss treatment and why most at four action. I didn 't think much of the stories at the time, they were so bad and I didn 't choose to believe the stories. Reaching the auction around 7 o 'clock at night we would have to find a place to park the huge horse trailer and truck, it was always a pain in the butt.

At first, things were relatively ‘easy’ for Thomas no major battles and no deathly injuries, She wishes she could say the same about her Husband William. William caught Pneumonia during the war and really drained Thomas, she was unstable, which eventually got her downgraded to a private. Which got her put into more battles specifically the Battle of Gettysburg, she fought for her hometown. Thomas fought hard for the union but her journey was cut to an end when her leg was blown off by a Confederate soldier. “Now I understand why those men were crying, I understand why this war needs to end, I understand everything now,” She wrote this passage while she was hospitalized.

Ameera and Maci had always seemed like a match made in heaven, so horse shows were just the next big step for the two. Maci Carter has rode horses since before she can even remember, “I don’t know how I got into riding horses, I had always liked them and so I started taking lessons.” stated Maci cracking a smirk, her brown eyes glistened as she started to talk about what she loved the most. Maci had only been doing horse shows for a year but it had already impacted her life incredibly. “I love going to horse shows because I get to be surrounded by other people who completely understand how I feel, people that are just like me that are driven by their passion of horses and the showing them.”