The Horse Whisperer

Miranda Fan

I read The Horse Whisperer. It’s a story. I started reading it on 6th of December and finished reading it on 8th of December.

This story happened in upstate New York. The author is Nicholas Evans.

One day in the morning, a truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, and a girl on horseback with her friend are in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. Her friend and her friend’s horse died on the spot, and she lost a leg, and her horse is dying. She is very sad. Her mother wants her to be happy again, everyday. She thinks first to save her horse. So her mother takes her and her horse to find a horse doctor. Her mother was bothered to call the doctor for help. Despite repeated brush-offs from that man, she still refused to give up, and finally she simply left with her daughter and her horse and went to Montana with its broad sky and their life was changed forever.

I think this book is not easy but it is a good story, because in this story soothing saves a vastly spiritual animal and gradually reveals human conflict and the weaknesses of humans. From it we can arrive at a philosophy: Not only ‘a horse whisperer,’ we need ‘a people whisperer.’ I like it. I want to introduce it to my classmates.