Half Broke Horses

by

Jeannette Walls

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A foal is a young horse. Lily reflects that breaking horses is easier when one has raised them from foals, because the horses have already grown accustomed to obeying humans.
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Foal Term Timeline in Half Broke Horses

The timeline below shows where the term Foal appears in Half Broke Horses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1 
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...breaking the horses, a job made easier by the fact that they raised them from foals. She did this by riding them bareback until they “accepted their fate.” She was thrown... (full context)