Reaction to "Am I Blue"

In this reading, the author talks about the feelings of animals and how they can be similar to humans in this way. She also compares her own emotions to the emotions of Blue, a horse. She discusses this in detail, as if Blue was human. Even as if Blue was herself.

In the essay, the Walker’s comparison of Blue’s feelings with a human’s is so much in detail that one would believe that the horse did have feelings, especially the capability to love. In the end, when Walker talks about humans’ lacking the compassion for considering the feelings of animals, such as by eating meat, she makes a point to let her readers feel somehow guilty for disregarding animals.

In reality, however, we cannot prove if animals do feel the same things humans do. We sometimes tell ourselves that we can see their emotions with the way they position their bodies or through the look in their eyes. However, we do not really know whether what we think has any validity.