The author portrays two types of animal lovers in which one treats the animals as her friends and the other only sees animals as something to be treasured, with the technique of characterization of the two we can see which love is present throughout the story. As many people tend to show love in vastly different ways, some are more expressive than others. Slyvia comes to live on the farm with her grandmother where she grows this love and care for not only the protection of the natural world but the care of the animals as well (Jewett 3). In other words, she is nevertheless remote from…