Here, we can see that Alice Walker’s use of parallelism enabled the readers to recognize that human capacity of emotion can also be applicable to animals.
Walker briefly narrates her observations of a horse, which goes by the name of Blue. For a period of time, she just observes the horse in its natural habitat and she just tries to imagine what it may be feeling. After much thought and consideration, it dawned on her the harsh reality that people sometimes disregard that animals are living creatures as well and that they have the ability to feel.
Aside from the parallelism that the author had portrayed, there is also a hint of racism involved in the story. The readers would note from the story that the whites were the superior race and that other human races other than the whites were, more or less, treated like animals.
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