Bilingual Reading - Little Red Horse

Author: (American) Steinbeck
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: I want to create a world for children, where there are no fairies or giants, where the colors are clearer to them than to adults, and where they feel more intensely. A boy named Jody, who grew up on the prairies in the central United States, unexpectedly received a beautiful little red horse. This luxury made him instantly a knight admired by the other boys. Jody carefully tamed it, feeding it carrots, grooming its mane, taking it for walks. One day, the little red horse caught a cold after getting wet in the rain. Jody rubbed alcohol on it to cool it down, used steam for medication, helped it with an incision to drain the abscess, and stayed up all night taking care of it, trying every possible method to save it. However, the little red horse's condition worsened. When the boy woke up in the morning, he found the little red horse had knocked open the fence and run up the hill to die. Dark vultures surrounded it, and one vulture stood on the horse's head, its mouth dripping with water from the horse's eye. The boy, in a frenzy, rushed up and fought the vulture. Finally, facing a pile of rotten bird corpses, he cried.