The Black Stallion

 Use proper grammar and mechanics; in particular, avoid using passive voice. Combine all responses into an essay with a brief introduction and conclusion and If you quote from the book, use appropriate in-text citations and include a works-cited page with your essay. The appropriate works-cited entry follows these instructions. Works-Cited Entry Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion. Yearling, 2002. Prompts 1) Communication occurs when a sender hails a receiver and transmits a message using codes and context that the receiver must decode for meaning. Choose three moments from The Black Stallion during which a communicative transaction occurs. Identify each element of each transaction (i.e., sender, hailing, receiver, message, codes, context, and decoding). How effective is each communicative transaction? How does the success or failure of each transaction affect the narrative’s integrity?