War Horse Characters

Michael Morpurgo
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of War Horse.

War Horse Characters

Michael Morpurgo
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of War Horse.
This section contains 1,045 words
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Joey

Joey is a half-Thoroughbred red-bay farm horse with four even white socks and a white cross on his head, and serves as the narrator of the novel. Joey is purchased by the Narracott family as a colt, where he quickly befriends young Albert Narracott. He and Albert become inseparable as Joey recognizes a friend for life in Albert.

Joey is later dismayed to be sold to Captain Nicholls at the start of World War I in order to pay the farm’s mortgage, but quickly takes to Nicholls because Nicholls is a good man. Joey then trains to become a war horse for use in combat, and befriends Topthorn. Following the death of Nicholls, Joey is transferred to Trooper Warren, then captured by the Germans, and pressed into service as a medical horse, and later an artillery horse. In between, Joey is cared for by Emilie and her...

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