In the non-fiction essay "Am I Blue?", the author, Alice Walker, uses characterization to show how animals can feel and express emotions on the same level as humans. This explains how a harmful action that would seemingly not affect an animal actually does. Walker says, "I was therefore unprepared for the expression in Blue's [eyes]. Blue was lonely. Blue was horribly lonely and bored. I was not shocked that this should be the case; five acres to tramp by yourself, endlessly [...]" (WALKER, p.5). The description of the horse's eyes being able to communicate extreme loneliness shows he can…