Comparison Between “Black Beauty” and “The Sign of Four”

Comparison Between “Black Beauty” and “The Sign of Four”

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                          Black Beauty tells about how animal life such horse among humans. Black Beauty was a horse, born in large pleasant meadow. He has had many good and bad experiences, met kind and evil master. He got good experiences like well treatment, well feed, carrying light cart, and get holiday. He also got bad experiences like using bearing rein, whip, carrying heavy load and too much worked and Black Beauty got several scars from that. While, The Sign of Four, tells about mysterious case full of riddle solved by Detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend, Doctor Watson. Holmes and Watson got a client whose name was Miss Morstan. She wanted looking for his father that disappeared ten years ago. It brought Holmes to mystery sequence like found of lost treasure, murder case, investigating, chasing until know what is The Sign of Four. From collecting proofs and clues, Holmes always could solve problems and mysteries even though it is impossible and insane. Holmes was a genius person. His genius be able to brought him solve riddle in every case.

   For Reader Age

                          Black Beauty is suitable for reader under six years old because that story tells about friendship and compassion. In Black Beauty story is a good moral value that teach children to respect and treat animal, how good treatment should be given to animal even though animal, they have heart too and want to be given well treatment by human. In addition to, children like fable tale in which main character of the story is animal that has to force in his life, but at last he got better life. Black Beauty had implanted moral value to children through the story. The plot is simple and interesting to follow for children supported by pictures. While The Sign of Four is suitable for reader between seven until twelve years old because that story contains mysteries

and problems full with riddle that difficult to solve. The geniuses of Sherlock Holmes gave own impress in the story. In addition to, readers in that age will guess about what will be happened in the next page. It is not easy to predict if readers not read thoroughly, but language in the story is easy to understand because it is intended for children. This story capable of insist readers to think about puzzle case and how to solve it. This story contains moral value that do not make a decision hurry, think again about what will you do or you will regret it and be patience in each problem that you face do not even think about give up. This story had good imagination that suitable for children between seven until twelve and they have strong imagination and big curiosity. They must think about how can Mr. Holmes solve mysteries and find the suspect with limited tools and technology at the time. Of course Holmes only use his brain to solve all problems and that makes children like to