- Author Info: Brian Fawcett (1944 – present) , is a writer and cultural analyst. He is now 75 years old and living in Toronto, Ontario. (According to Wikipedia).
- Plot Summary:
Exposition: The protagonist is introduced as the youngest boy in the family, he has 2 older sister and a brother.
Conflict: The pair of sisters keep treating him and his brother as horses to play with. He tries to act as other animal like cat, dog, chicken and cow, even whining but to no avail. His sisters keep treating him like a “stallion”.
Climax: As they grew older, the older brother fight back as he doesn’t want to be treated like an animal.
Falling Action: The sisters lose interest in their little brothers. They started going out, looking for their “other stallions”. The boy is left behind, confuse, alone. He begin to hate the other “stallions” that his sisters love.
Denouement: The protagonist feels lonely, as his sister aren’t interested in him anymore.
- Setting: The story take place in the past, according to the memory of the author.
- Character:
Protagonist: He is the youngest brother in the family. He is kind of a flat character, very submissive.
Antagonist: The opposing force in the story is the twin sisters who were nearly seven years older than the main character. In their town, all young girls seem to love horses, and there are at least a hundred theories about why. Those girls love horses from book like Black Beauty and had a passionate but unrequited love for real horses due to they poor, only a few daughters of really wealthy people actually owned horses. However, the twin sisters weren’t like any of those kinds of girls because they created their own horses, rode them, made up stories about them , cured them when they were injured or sick, and generally made life miserable for them. They thought the main character and the older brother (who was just a year younger than the twins) were two of the horses.
- Narrator & P.O.V: The narrator in this story has the first person Point-of-view. The Narrator is also the protagonist. We know this as the narrator uses “I” and “me”.
- Conflict: The type of conflict is Person V.S. Person as known as external. In the story, the conflict is the twin sisters look down on the main character and they constantly treat him like a horse even he is theirs young brother.
- Theme: In the short story “Wild Horses”, Brian Fawcett presents the idea that “sibling rivalry” is hurtful and can break the relationship between family no matter which side you stand.
- Figurative Language:
Irony:
-My twin sisters were nearly seven years older than I was and they were the most normal sisters I ever knew. (pg.27)
-I may have whinnied before I spoke human language. (pg.29)
Simile:
-I would meow and bark, cluck like a chicken, or moo like a cow. (pg.30)
-The more I tried to escape, the more they thought of me as a horse they were trying to train. (pg.27)
- Key Terms:
- galloped: ran fast and rather boisterously.
- stallion: adult male horse.
- Personal Connection: I remember there was one time, my sister came back home from Singapore. We were on the car and not waiting until fifteen minutes later, we broke into a childish fight. But afterward, I am still her younger brother, and we were back to normal pretty quick. How nostalgic…
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