Janet Wohls' Half-Trained Horse is the story of the author's grandmother, and like her autobiographical novel The Glass Castle, it is based on a true story. We all know the West

Janet Wohls' Half-Trained Horse is the story of the author's grandmother, and like her autobiographical novel The Glass Castle, it is based on a true story.

We all know how dashing and wild western cowboys are. And this book tells us that as a woman in the west, my grandmother also has a vigorous vitality that is not inferior to men, she is full of wild and tenacious spirit, resisting all the dogmatism that wants to bind her.

In this book, I see the most primitive life of a woman, she is like an untamed wild horse, galloping on her life path, not afraid of power, all the way through the thorns.

What I admire is that most of the qualities that she still retains in women have been worn away, such as myself. So looking at her story, there will be a vivid feeling, and it is simply pleasant after watching it.

And the reason why she can remain pure and wild is inseparable from her father's way of parenting her:

Of course, when dealing with inexperienced horses, you never know what's going to happen, I've been thrown by horses I don't know how many times, often scaring mom out of it, but Dad waved her away and then came over and pulled me up. "The most important thing in life," he would say, "is to learn how to wrestle." ”

So, she learned to wrestle in this way, no matter how she wrestled, she could get up at the first time and get back on the horse. Because for her, life is also like a horse to be tamed:

"Never blame the horse," Dad said, "it just does what it knows." Horses are not stupid, they know what to know. ”

I guess this is life, with its own laws, we can do not blame, but tame.