The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
By: William Saroyan
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Vocabulary
Consequently - result of action; As a result
"Consequently, even though I could see the horse, so magnificent; even though I could smell it, so lovely; even though I could hear it breathing, so exciting; I couldn't believe the horse had anything to do with my cousin Mourad or with me or with any of the other members of our family, asleep or awake, because I knew my cousin Mourad couldn't have bought the horse, and if he couldn't have bought it he must have stole, and I refuse to believe he had stolen it. Page 2
Pious - ominous, holy, or God-like
There was a pious stillness and humor in each of them which on the one had delighted me and on the other frightened me. Page 3
Irritable - act of annoyance
Before him was our uncle Khosrove, an enormous man with a powerful head of black hair and the largest mustache in the San Joaquin Valley, a man so furious in temper, so irritable, so impatient that he stopped anyone from talking by roaring, It is no harm; pay no attention to it. Pg. 4
Capricious - being random
The distribution of the various kinds of spirit of our tribe had been from the beginning capricious and vagrant. Pg.4
Vagrant - act of carelessness
The distribution of the various kinds of spirit of our tribe had been from the beginning capricious and vagrant. Pg.4
"Consequently, even though I could see the horse, so magnificent; even though I could smell it, so lovely; even though I could hear it breathing, so exciting; I couldn't believe the horse had anything to do with my cousin Mourad or with me or with any of the other members of our family, asleep or awake, because I knew my cousin Mourad couldn't have bought the horse, and if he couldn't have bought it he must have stole, and I refuse to believe he had stolen it. Page 2
Pious - ominous, holy, or God-like
There was a pious stillness and humor in each of them which on the one had delighted me and on the other frightened me. Page 3
Irritable - act of annoyance
Before him was our uncle Khosrove, an enormous man with a powerful head of black hair and the largest mustache in the San Joaquin Valley, a man so furious in temper, so irritable, so impatient that he stopped anyone from talking by roaring, It is no harm; pay no attention to it. Pg. 4
Capricious - being random
The distribution of the various kinds of spirit of our tribe had been from the beginning capricious and vagrant. Pg.4
Vagrant - act of carelessness
The distribution of the various kinds of spirit of our tribe had been from the beginning capricious and vagrant. Pg.4
Moral
A moral is some type of life lesson of what is right. Morals that I think that my mother passed down onto me is that asking someone about borrowing their items, and in return I'll return them back.This relates to the story, "Summer of the Beautiful White Horse," is that a character name Mourad does the right thing and returns a precious being to the farmer. For instance, "That afternoon John Byro came to our house in his surrey and showed my mother the horse that had been stolen and returned." (p.9) Furthermore, this relates to me because I borrowed a movie from my cousins, and I returned it to them a few weeks later.