THEMES

1.      Mistreatment of the animals, particularly horses.

•   Mr.Blomefield’s children rode Merrylegs like she was a steam engine.
• The lady at Earlshall Park wants the horses to wear checkrein to keep the horse’s head high which causes pain to the horse.
•  Black Beauty needs to pull heavy loads through bad winter.
•  Ginger was being sold many times and need to bear with the mistreated of each master until he would rather dead than alive to suffer the human mistreatment.

2.      Kindness, sympathy, and an understanding the treatment of horses

•  James, the stable boy saved the horses live during the fire.
•  Jerry, the cab driver kept Black Beauty clean and gave him plenty of food and    fresh water.
•   John sympathy that the horses will suffer from the use of   checkrein.

3.      Loyalty

•  Although Black Beauty is tired, he raced back as fast as he could to the doctor in order to save his mistress life, Mrs Gordon.
• Max and Black Beauty willing to bear the painful of wearing checkrein since they do not have a choice and need to follow the lady order.