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Comparing The Characters In The George And The Jewels And Black Beauty

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In the passages “The George and the Jewels” by Jane Smiley and “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse” by Anna Sewell, the authors make both passages in first person. However, the authors also use the first person perspective to develop the characters. Both passages include a conflict of ideas between two characters, but they are also different in many ways. In “Black Beauty”, the author develops the character to make her overcome the problem, whereas in “The Georges and the Jewels” the author develops the character by making a problem that the character will have to solve later on in the story. In the passage “The George and the Jewels,” the author puts the first person perspective on a girl named Abby, whose father sells horses …show more content…

The horse describes how awful it is to be broken in with a bit, but the horse also describes how she feels when her master is riding her. She feels pride. This is the character overcoming her problem. In this quote, the horse describes the awfulness of the bit. “Those who have never had a bit in their mouth cannot think how bad it feels; a great piece of cold hard steel as thick as a man's finger to be pushed into one’s mouth, over one’s teeth, over one’s tongue, with ends coming out of the corner of your head, held fast there by straps over your head, under your throat, round your nose, and under your chin; so that no way in the world can you get rid of the nasty hard thing; it is very bad!” This shows that the character does not like the bit and wishes she did not have to wear it. However, the horse later describes how she feels proud to carry her master and how she feels happy to serve him. “I felt rather proud to carry my master, and as he continued to ride me a little every day I soon became accustomed to it.” This shows that the horse is proud and that she overcame her problem. This passage is different from “The Georges and the Jewels” because in this passage the first person perspective shows how the main character overcomes her problem, rather than the other passage where she did not overcome her

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