The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
Imagine yourself the narrator of the story ‘The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse’. Describe to your friend how you got a beautiful white horse and also why you returned it to its rightful owner.
20 Baglenia Square
Risikburg
Armenia
20th March, 2008
Dear Rasool
Life is full of many surprises. One day someone woke me up tapping on the window of my room. I found my cousin Mourad sitting on a beautiful white horse. I couldn’t believe my eyes. We were a poor family. How did the horse come? Naturally, Mourad must have stolen it. A member of our family and stealing ! Impossible ! But stealing a horse for riding was not the same as stealing it for money. So we convinced ourselves.
Everyday Mourad would come riding on the horse. He had a passion for riding. I requested him for a ride alone. The horse proved quite unmanageable. It jumped over vines and threw me down. I was certainly not as seasoned a rider as Mourad was. It continued for some days. Then we started feeling the pangs of conscience. The horse must be returned to its rightful owner. I agreed with Mourad. The owner himself met us while we were on the way. He recognised his horse. But he couldn’t imagine that any of our family could ever steal a horse. He thought that the horse must be the twin of his horse. In this way, we were saved. But we couldn’t keep the horse anymore. We took the horse to John Byro’s vineyard and put it in the barn.
Yours truly
Aram
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Why did Aram refuse to believe that his cousin Mourad could even steal a horse?
Why did Aram conclude that Mourad had stolen the horse?
Why did the narrator believe that stealing a horse for a ride was not the same thing as stealing?
Who had the crazy streak in the family and who was the natural descend-ant of that streak in the tribe?
Describe the narrator’s uncle Khosrove.
Describe the incident that proves that uncle Khosrove was indeed crazy. How did he react when he was told that his own house was on fire?
Describe the first experience of the narrator when he rode the horse alone.
Where did they hide the horse and why?
Why did the narrator insist on keeping the stolen horse for a year? What did Mourad think about it?
Who was John Byro? Why had he come to the narrator’s house?
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