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Similarities Between Sometimes When You Fall Off Your Horse And Abby's '

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Both authors used a first person point of view to develop their characters. To begin, in the Georges and the Jewles, the main character, Abby realizes that horses are beautiful and animals and she shouldn't be scared to be with them. In the first paragraph, Abby says, "Sometimes when you fall off your horse, you just don't want to get right back on." This shows that at the beginning, Abby was scared of the horses. But near the end she says,"I lay there feeling how warm she was and smelling her fragrance and I thought, I never heard of this before." This is right after she woke up and that's when she realized that horses weren't that dangerous and they were actually beautiful and amazing creatures. Her first person point of view helps show her perspective on horses and helps show how it changes over the course of the story. …show more content…

Whenever her dad tells her to do something, she does it even though she knows it is just for selling horses and not good things. Furthermore, in passage 2, The Black Beauty the main character, the horse hates being broken in but throughout the passage it realizes it might be sucked but it is the only way it can be safely ridden by its master which makes it really proud. In the first paragraph the horse exclaims, "but always do his master's will, even though he may be very tired or hungry; but the worst of all is, when his harness is once on, he may neither jump for joy nor lie down for weariness. So you see, breaking in is a great thing." This shows the hatred the horse has for being broken. The first person point of view also shows that the horse has a sense of humor by saying how bad it is and then joking that it is really good. But it is really there to show how much the horse dislikes being broken in. But later in the story the horse says, "At length, one morning, my master got on my back and rode me round the meadow on the soft

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