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| Plot Summary of The Horse Whisper |
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"A teenage girl and her horse get in a accident that leave them both with physical and emotional scars. The mother of the girl travels with the girl and the horse from New York to Montana for some help from an Horse Whisperer. This is a once in a lifetime experience for the teenage girl and mother."
Leah Van Alstine, Resident Scholar
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"In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives and the lives of those who love them is devastating.
Grace is the only child of a prominent New York magazine editor, Annie Graves, and her lawyer husband Robert. So mutilated and traumatized is the horse that even the vet who saved his life now wishes he hadn't. Annie refuses to have him destroyed.
She hears about a man in Montana, a 'whisperer' who is said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. Abandoning her job, Annie sets out across the continent with Grace and Pilgrim to find him. The man's name is Tom Booker and he lives on the Rocky Mountain Front, a place of daunting beauty.
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Eleanor Notley, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- near future
Animal story
Yes
Kind of animal:
- horse
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Male
- Female
Profession/status:
- farmer
- journalist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 10 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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