Essay On Point Of View In The Georges And The Jewels

The point of view of a story can really change the way the reader looks at the the other characters in the story and the overall moral of the story. In the stories,”The georges and the Jewels”, by Jane Smiley and,”Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a horse” by Anna Sewell, the stories are written in different points of views. With,”The Georges and the Jewels” being written in the point of view of the daughter of a salesman trying to sell horses and,”Black Beauty:The Autobiography of a horse” being written in the perspective of a horse, who explains the process of “breaking in” a horse. In the realistic fiction story,”The Georges and the Jewels” by Jane Smiley and the autobiography,”Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse” by Anna Sewell,

the authors use first person point of view to develop the characters by using different species. Both stories are written about horses, but using different species gives the reader a different perspective about the other characters in the stories and the horses inner thoughts and feelings. .
Take,”Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse” for instance.

The story is written in a horse's point of view. In the line,”Those who have never had a bit in their mouths cannot think how bad it feels”, Black Beauty clearly doesn't like the bit. If this story were written in the point of view of the person actually doing the “breaking in”, you may not know that the horse doesn't like the bit. And a human cannot explain how painful installing a bit is, as only horses go through the process. This develops the character of the horse because now the reader knows about the personal opinions of the horse about this particular process of “breaking in.” Another personal opinion the horse is expressing is,”At length, one morning, my master got on my back and rode me round the meadow on the soft grass. It certainly did feel queer, but must say 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.” In this quote, you can clearly see that this horse loves to carry her master and she feels very proud to. Again, if a human were to narrate this story, they wouldn't know what the horse's thoughts are about carrying her master. This develops the horses character as now we know that she is proud to carry her master. So, all in all, the horse’s point of view develops the characters as we now know opinions that she holds that we wouldn't have know if it were written in a human's point of

view.
In the story,”The Georges and the Jewels”,the narrator is a girl whose dad owns a business where he sells horses.

The quote,”Some horses buck you off. Some horses spook you off—they see something scary and drop a shoulder and spin and run away. Some horses stop all of a sudden, and there you are, head over heels and sitting on the ground.” shows how this girl really doesn't like some horses as they don't ride nicely. This develops the characters for the horses as now the reader perceives these horses as bad, since they were so badly conceived by her. If this was in the horse's point of view, they may say that she is the problem and it would develop the girl as the problem character. In the quote,” I had one a year ago, a sweet boy mare...I rode her every day, and she never put a foot wrong. Her lope was as easy as flying. One of the days she was with us, I had a twenty-four-hour virus, so when I went out to ride, I tacked her up and took her down to the creek at the bottom of the pasture, out of sight of the house...I lay down in the grass and fell asleep. I knew she would graze, and she did for a while, I suppose. But when I woke up (and feeling much better, thank you), there she was, curled up next to me like a dog, kind of pressed against me but sweet and large and soft.”, the reader can really see how much she loves this particular horse. This horse is developed as a very nice and calm character from the way she describes him. If this was written in the point of

view of the horse, we may have heard more of the good things that the girl did to the horse that what the horse did for the girl. So, basically, the point of view of the girl develops the characters for the horse and if the story were written in the horse’s point of view, we would have heard more about what the horses thought about her.
In conclusion, In the realistic fiction story,”The Georges and the Jewels” by Jane Smiley and the autobiography,”Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse” by Anna Sewell, the authors use first person point of view to develop the characters by using different species. Both stories are written about horses, but using different species gives the reader a different perspective about the other characters in the stories and the horses inner thoughts and feelings. What perspective is more important when there is a story mainly dealing with animals? The humans or the animals?