Explain how Black Beauty’s decision not to cross the bridge changes the story. Use at least two details from the story in your answer. ANSWER: Beauty's turndown to go across the bridge isn't necessarily a big turning point in the story. It goes as another rising action that further shows readers and characters that Beauty is a good, dependable horse with good sense. You could argue that the turndown changed the story by allowing Beauty to survive. “Come on, Beauty, what’s the matter?” Of course I could not tell him, but I knew very well that the bridge was not safe." “No, my dear; but if your Black Beauty had not been wiser than we were we should all have been carried down the river at the wooden bridge.” I heard no more, as they went into the house, and John took me to the stable.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.