In the excerpts from The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell, the authors both use first person point of view to tell the story, and learn something about themselves or life in general. In both stories the characters themselves tell their stories and how they feel, but yet they are different in many ways. Both excerpts show ways that the characters learn a lesson, but they do this very different from each other. Similarly, Both passages are about horses. Both passages develop the theme with the help of this horse's character that the author created. In the excerpt from The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley, the character realizes that her fears are not really that scary