Michael Rivera

2/6/15

US History 2

War Horse 

Literary 

The movie war shows the journey of a horse as he finds himself being found and cared for from many different people. The main plot of the movie is the World war and seeing the horse as the main protagonist of the movie. The horse is sold to a farmer which of a son who becomes the main caretaker of the horse. When buying the horse you see the first conflict, he spends more of his money from fear of being out bid. This cause them to be in debt with the land, and using the only horse they have for the land to plow it. They under estimate the horse, but with some training there is resolution. The horse surprisingly plows the field surprising everyone. Soon after they began to grow some crops, with hopes of getting out of debt. After a storm everything gets ruined leaving them with nothing causing the father to sell  the horse. And thus the journey began. The horse was sold to the British army. After being in the first first battle, the British face there first defeat which caused the horse to be taken by the Germans. The resolution for this conflict was one of the German soldiers set him free knowing the value of the horse. He was found by a girl who took hem in with her grandfather. To result in the horse being taken again by the Germans. After carrying heavy artillery the Germans fight the French. Coincidentally the original caretaker of the horse fights in the army of the French. After a German soldier finds a wound in the horse he sets him free where he runs into barbed wire leaving him stuck. The final resolution of the movie is when the horse is once again put up for auction. The whole army pitch in to give the horse back to Albert. After being out bid the grandfather returns the horse back to Albert out of sympathy and seeing the connections the horse had to Joey.