My Friend Flicka
Author:
Mary O'Hara
Publication:
1941 by J.B. Lippincott Company
Genre:
Animal Story, Fiction
Pages:
349
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Ken's face was beautiful with the young look of wildness and freedom and his dark blue dreaming eyes. It was a beauty which his mother could understand, and she could also understand, though it frightened her, the look of indescribable yearning that crossed his face when he thought of a colt and cried, "I want him to be mine—all my own." Of course, he could ride any horse on the range, but what he wanted was something that was his alone to tend and love. Because a practical Scottish father could not so readily understand, Ken had to wait and suffer before Flicka was his. Against the background of the great Wyoming ranch the relationship of Ken and his mother, of Ken and his father, of Ken and Flicka, is explored with subtle and disarming sympathy that never relapses into sentimentality.
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My Friend Flicka
Reviewed by Diane Pendergraft
With all his heart, Ken McLaughlin wants two things; to be friends with his father, and to have his very own horse for his best friend. But Ken is a daydreamer. He has a habit of “getting into another world” while looking at a painting, or clouds, or watching horses run. This makes it extremely difficult for Ken to please his father, an exacting former army Captain who is used to being obeyed without question.
Unlike the tortured and twisted plot of the 2006 movie, “Flicka,” in which the main character is a girl, this is not a story of a rebellious child teaching his parents that he knows what is best for himself, with the adults learning the error of their ways.
My Friend Flicka
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