Horse Whisperer And The Punk Clown

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How was the character presented? In ‘Horse Whisperer’ the character is a groom who calms down horses, and works on farms. Forster shows how great the bond is between the horses and the character ‘they shouted for me’, ‘pulled bloody from the mouth of a just-born foal’ and has also verbally visualized the horses with its ‘shimmering muscles’, ‘spongy tissue’, ‘searing breath’ and ‘glistening veins’. However the character wasn’t important as he was just a mere groom and was later forced to quit. Forster uses different techniques and makes it seem sound magical just like the title ‘Horse Whisperer’ as if they were magically connected and the character was disliked much to be driven out by ‘pitchforks’ because in the eye of others he was a ‘demon' and ‘witch’. Similarly the character in ‘Clown Punk’ is also marginalized and dispossesses. It’s a homeless person living in the rural side of the town ‘like a basket of washing that got up’ showing he’s dirty and that he is the ‘town clown’ also shows he is like a joke people laughs at, ignored, repulsed and even scared of him ‘you kids in the backseat who wince and scream’ in the contemporary society. The ‘indelible ink’ and the ‘shrunken scalp still daubed with sad tattoos of high punk’ implies that the man was a dedicated punk and a rebel in his youth, and ‘then picture of windscreen wipers, and let it rain’ in the final sentence suggest a washing away of the past, unlike in ‘Horse Whisperer’ the character is treasuring his past and his memories as a groom, ‘still I miss them’ he says ‘the searing breath’ and ‘glistering
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