War Horse Book Summary

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The name of my book report is War Horse. The creator of this book is Michael Morpurgo, who published in 1982. The genre of this book is a Historic Fiction. Historic Fiction is a book that is Fiction, but it has setting is located in the past. The setting in War Horse takes place in 1914 when WWI begins. The theme of this book is friendship, it is shown throughout the book of how Joey becomes friends with Albert, Topthorn, and others. The main idea of this book is the bonding between animals and humans. The main bonding in this story is how Joey and Albert bond together with him taking care of him and helping out to save his life. The main character in War Horse is a red bay with a white star on his forehead and four equal-length white socks horse named Joey. In this book Joey is the narrator and we follow him around his life. He is a very …show more content…

Joey meets Topthorn during training with Corporal Perkins. Soon Joey is put on the first line where he loses Captain Nicholls during the first charge. Joey is then a captured by Germans with Topthorn and have to carry injured people. When Joey was off duty, they met Emilie a sick child who cared for Topthorn and Joey. They are soon taken back to duty and meet a person named Fredrich have to take care of them. One day, Topthorn wasn’t feeling good and then fell on his knees and fell over and died, while trying to run away from gunfire Fredrich gets hits. While Joey was grieving over his friends, he sees a tank and runs into No Man's Land and gets hurt on a barbwire fences. He is taken to a vet by the English where he meets Albert. Since the horses are being sold, Joey can't come back home with Albert so he is put in a auction where Emilie's Granddad buys Joey. Emilie's Granddad sells Joey to Albert for one English penny and a promise to take of

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