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The Summer Of The Beautiful White Horse - William Saroyan

CBSE · Class 11 · English

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Story Overview

  • Aram is nine years old and belongs to the poor but honest Garoghlanian family.
  • His cousin Mourad arrives early in the morning on a beautiful white horse.
  • Aram is shocked because his family is famous for honesty, so he cannot easily believe Mourad could have stolen the horse.
2

Character Sketches

  • Aram is the young narrator. He is imaginative, truthful in feeling, and deeply attached to horses.
  • Mourad is lively, unusual, and called crazy by others, but he is not cruel or dishonest in spirit.
  • Khosrove is enormous, furious-tempered, and comic because he repeats the same line in every situation.
3

Themes and Message

  • Honesty is the strongest value in the story.
  • The Garoghlanian family is poor, but its reputation for honesty is more important than money.
  • Childhood innocence is shown through the boys’ excitement about the horse.
4

Important Events in Sequence

  • Mourad wakes Aram early in the morning and shows him the white horse.
  • Aram first thinks the horse must be stolen because the family is too honest to buy it.
  • The boys ride the horse and enjoy the freedom it gives them.

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Aram's family is extremely poor butMourad is considered crazy by everyoneAram is only nine years oldJohn Byro is an Assyrian farmerThe story is humorous because

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