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Book Review:  BLACK BEAUTY, by Anna Swell (1877)      This week I read BLACK BEAUTY. This book is a horse’s story. I like this story because it makes me understand the animal’s feelings. I wrote down three quotes and will discuss them.      The first one is, “Black beauty is never angry and afraid because nobody was unkind to him.” I like this sentence because it implies the beauty and wise of Black Beauty. That is why he was loved by many people. Just read this sentence makes me imagine that Black Beauty is so gentle and cool.      The second one is, “He learns how hard a horse’s life can be, and how stupid and how cruel some people are” I felt his sorrow from this sentence. As first he lived happily with his mother and friend horses, but as the owner changes or get terrible, he thought that some people are bad. I understood the feelings of animals that I had never thought because it is a sentence written from the horse’s perspective.      The third one is, “I shall never

     The outline of this book is a typical English introduction from a foreigner. The title of this book is translated as "Introduction to English" in Japanese. When I first saw the title, I thought of an extraterrestrial life. Like ET. However, this book describes a little strange character of the British. While reading, I was confused because I couldn't understand the strange behavior of the British. According to this book, weather is the most important topic in England.  As a Japanese, I'm bored with the topic of the weather, but in England the weather is an interesting and exciting topic and I have to talk well about the weather.      What I found particularly interesting was Chapter 21 “How to plan a Town”. 2 Never build all the houses in a street in a straight line. The are free to build their houses in they British are free people circles. 3 Make sure that nobody put the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 on one side of the street and 2, 4, 6, 8 on the other side of