Comparing The Georges And Black Beauty: The Autobiography Of A Horse

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“Sometimes when you fall off your horse, you just don’t want to get back on” (Smiley 1). In The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley, the narrator falls off her horse but gets up again after her father pushes her to keep on riding. She thinks of her father as a person who wants money and doesn’t care about the horses themselves. In Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell, the narrator, who is a horse, thinks of his master as kind, even though the master puts him in uncomfortable gear. In the two passages from The Georges and the Jewels and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, the two authors use first-person point of view to similarly and differently develop their characters through …show more content…
The reader knows that the narrator in Georges is a girl from when her father questions “‘How am I going to tell those folks who are looking to buy these horses that a little girl can ride them, if you don’t get up and ride them?’” (Smiley 4). Since the narrator, Abby, is a human and the passage is written in first-person, the reader has some insight on how Abby feels about the horses and her father’s business selling the horses. On the other hand, Anne Sewell in Black Beauty writes the story from the point of view of a horse, not a human. The reader is able to understand how the horse feels whenever it is being put into riding gear and how he feels about his master. Black Beauty, the horse, explains how bizarre it is when his master coaxed him to bit the harnesses on him for the first time. Black Beauty describes it as “a nasty thing,” but became accustomed to it after a while, even feeling a sense of pride and responsibility for his master (Sewell 3). In the two passages, the two writers, Jane Smiley and Anna Sewell, develop their characters differently by representing them as either a girl or a
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