The third example which shows changes in the characters in both poems are the differences in the way these poems are telling the changes. The narrator in The Elders at Falls is retelling the story of the poem that they had heard from others so the way that they react to things within this tale are not the same as the people that went through it. For example in the first line of the poem “I heard this story” (Line 1). This lets us know right at the beginning that this poem is being told through someone else. Yet in America there are several examples which show that the narrator is going through this ordeal living in a different country of their own. As stated in the third stanza “By seven I had grown suspicious-we were still here.” This line
