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Story · Switzerland · 1881

Heidi

Name: Heidi scores 64 — Live Historic
Item: Heidi
Rating: 64
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64Watch it awake.

A bitter grandfather thaws, and a city house makes the mountain child sick.

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Heidi is left with a bitter old man, and she thaws him. That is the first half I trust. Johanna Spyri, 1881. A girl, a grandfather, a mountain. Then a city house takes her as a companion. She sickens for the altitude and the air. The mountain is not magic. It is the place her body knows. I don't need to add a miracle to make it land.

A richer house using a child as company is the part I'd say out loud. Her body tells on the arrangement. I was tired and the book did not ask me to be clever about it. The old man was bitter and a child softened him, which is a household, not a trick. If we read it, we don't call the mountain a spell. We call it the air she needed and the house that took her off it.

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

75 instead of 64

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is still a novel film, and it scores 75 instead of 64. What you gain is piety: Conscience here means going, not a reason to stay for show.

The eight

6
Industry
A city house hires her as a companion, and that use makes her sick.
9
Household
A girl left with her grandfather thaws him, and that bond is the life.
4
Piety
A bitter man softens because the child stays; the page is not a creed.
6
Courage
She is left with a bitter old man, then taken off the mountain she needs.
4
Republic
A richer house borrows a child; the debt is to her, not to a town.
7
Temperance
The city want for a little companion is answered by her body failing.
8
Truth
The mountain is not magic; her sickness says the city house was wrong.
7
Stewardship
What should be left her is the air and the place her body knows.

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Story · Britain · 1877

Black Beauty

65Worth an evening.

The horse tells it, and the kind hands don't cancel the cruel ones.

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Anna Sewell lets the horse tell it. He passes from kind hands to cruel ones. The work of a horse is treated as a life, not a machine. The whip is the thing the book is against. A child can read it, and then wants to know why anyone would hurt an animal that was doing the job.

I don't dress that up. It is a child's book with a bill for cruelty, from 1877. The kind hands are not the whole story, or there would be nothing to argue. If we read it this week, we stay long enough to meet the cruel hands, and we say the horse's work counts as a life.

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Keep Black Beauty in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

75 instead of 65

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is still a novel film, and it scores 75 instead of 65. What you gain is household: She takes the child out of the marriage the diary has told.

The eight

8
Industry
The horse's work is the story, treated as a life and not a machine.
4
Household
No marriage or child; his life is which hands he is passed to.
7
Piety
The book wants the whip refused, which is a conscience about cruelty.
5
Courage
Kind hands keep him; cruel hands can spend a life that cannot quit.
6
Republic
How a working horse is used is the duty this child's book argues.
7
Temperance
The whip is the want the book refuses to treat as a tool.
7
Truth
The horse tells it, so the cruelty is charged to the hands that did it.
8
Stewardship
A child is left a horse's working life and a bill for the whip.

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