War Horse Summary

The war horse story setting started in Devon, England in the year of 1914. The Narracott family consists of three person that is Ted Narracott(Father), Rosie Narracott(Mother) and Albert Narracott(Albie, the main character). Ted Narracott went to an auction to buy a horse and he paid 30 guineas for the horse for cropland. It’s too high that he ended up not paying the landlord, Lyons. The horse was trained by Albie and he called him Joey. Joey was a half thoroughbred colt. Just because they’re in a war, everything was hard. Then Albie’s father, Ted sold Joey to captain Nicholls.

The first journey is when Captain Nicholls brings Joey to a war. He was killed by guns that killed most of the horses, except Joey and Topthorn. Topthorn is Major Stewart’s mount, always be the fastest in the training drills. However, this time Captain Nicholls won in the training drills.  After that, Joey and Topthorn are chosen to pull an ambulance, but Topthorn refuses to accept the collar. Then Joey comes over and show Topthorn that it’s okay and everything is going to be fine. The horse was taken cared by Gunther and Michael. When the unit are told to move out, Gunther, the older one was asked to stay and Michael, just 14 and it’s told to join the military. When the unit was going, Gunther took Joey and Topthorn and pull Michael to run away.  The ride and hide in the windmill. Before the wake up to continue the Journey they were caught and executed.

The Horses are left behind, the next morning Emilie finds the horse and starts to take a good care of them. Emilie is sick and live with her grandfather since her parents were killed. Emilie’s birthday is the day when her grandfather allowed her to ride Joey. Just when she rides Joey, the Germans come to the farm and took Joey and Topthorn. The horse are taken and put into the care of Friendrich who quickly become attached. When the other horses that were asked to pull a machine gun tank, one of the horse died and asked Topthorn to change the die horse place, but the topthorn was injured and Joey sacrifice himself to pull the tank.

Then the scene changes back to Joey, Topthorn, Friedrich and the Germans. As they walk along the trenches, Friedrich went to the side and Topthorn lies down and dies. Then suddenly the Germans that march, run to the other direction because in the movie we see a tank which going to Friedrich and Joey’s side. Friedrich run away but Joey was trapped between the tanks. Then Joey that in the first movie tries to jump across the German trench. Joey is now in no man’s land that is straightly jumps to the British lines and pulling the wire fence until he totally tangled in it.

Joey unable to move until the next morning the British and Germans are amazed to see Joey in the middle of no man’s land. The British soldier pull out his handkerchief to help Joey, but the German soldier fires a warning shot to him. As the German soldier gets near to Joey, he realize that he have brought the wire cutters and gloves to cut the wires. They worked together to set Joey free and two of the soldiers want Joey. They toss a coin and the British Soldier wins. The British soldier brings Joey to the British lines and to the hospital where Albie still blind. Joey was injured due to when he was tangled at the wire fence. There is no vet and the only way is to kill Joey. Just then, Albie called him with the whistle that he taught Joey just before the war. Joey comes toward Albie and confirmed that Joey is Albie’s horse.

The war has ended, but Albie is not allowed to take the horse back to England. Joey is going to be sold along with the rest of the horses that is not owned by officers. Albie’s comrades have collected all the money they have collected, so Albie can buy his horse back But as the bid goes up, Albie is losing. Then Emilie’s Grandfather shows up and he pays 100pounds, and if the bids goes up again, he will sell his farm just to get that horse. It’s because that Emilie has died and the only memories left of Emilie is Joey. As Albie and Emilie’s grandfather talked, Emilie’s grandfather decided to give him back the horse as that is Emilie would have wanted. The ending was that Albie is riding Joey back home where he meets his mother and his father.