McCarthy incorporates numerous themes including success, failure, fatality, and the fear that goes hand in hand with all of these, into his novel. In All the Pretty Horses, these themes help create a personal connection for the reader, one that is easily related to. For me, the theme in this novel that I could closely relate with was fear: that insane impulse that drives you to the limit, scares you toward insanity, and messes with your head. But what is it? What is fear? Fear is a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger. The fear that the characters possessed in the novel impacted the entire story, and without it, each of their lives would have been severely altered. Their fear not only caused them to live their lives hiding from it, but it also pushed them to do insane things. .
John Grady Cole is the protagonist who fears failing at the one thing that is most important to him in life: becoming a cowboy. With seemingly less significance, Jimmy Blevins fears lightning. Although it is possible to assume that Blevins's fear isn't as deep or important as Cole's, this preconception, by the end of the book, is proven incorrect. We learn that Blevins" fear possesses both literal and figurative significance. It drives him into places that possibly could have otherwise been avoided, yet it also brings him closer to his friends. .
At sixteen years old, John Grady Cole finds his life quickly and suddenly worsening. After the death of his grandfather, he discovers that he is without the future he had always envisioned of running his own ranch. His grandfather had epitomized all of his dreams of a cowboy and of his future life. Never had he doubted that one day he was to inherit the ranch and would become the true cowboy that he dreamed of being. He hoped to be a solid rancher with a couple hundred cattle and hundreds of acres of his own to ride through, much like his grandfather in his day.
Character Analysis of Horse The story "A Man Called Horse," by Dorothy M. ... In order to become free from his situation, Horse asks Pretty Calf, Greasy Hand's fifteen year old daughter, to take his courtship. ... Experiencing the loss of Pretty Calf, Horse did just this. ... "It was little enough to do for Pretty Calf, for little freedom." ... Horse truly grows all the way through his journey. ...
In his plan to successfully escape, he married pretty calf in hope that she will be the key to his freedom. ... Horse named Pretty Calf "freedom" in hope that she would be his key in achieving it. ... When pretty calf died, greasy hand emotionally entrapped him by asking Horse to stay with her as his son. ... However, when pretty calf died, Greasy Hand could no longer "afford any more lasting signs of grief". ... After all her losses, the tables had been turned and horse had then instead gained his freedom while Greasy Hand found herself trapped in every way, alone to the w...
All The Pretty Horses In the novel All The Pretty Horses, one comes across a lot of different people with idealistic views. ... It's my horse"(Page80) Lacey Rawlins admiration for Blevins shines through when he is speaking to Cole about him. ... The little son of a bitch wouldn't stand still for nobody high-jackin his horse."... In all cases I refused to believe in a god that could permit such injustices as I saw in a world of his own making. ... (Page254) All the characters conflicts with the truth of reality lead to their unhappiness. ...
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES Blevins was a very important character in the novel. ... He mentioned in the story that he was running away from his Step father, Even though at the beginning John and Rawlins did not like the idea of having Blevins with them, He helped them a lot during the trip since he knew how to hunt and cook, he seemed to be able to support himself and also he tried very hard to be like the other two, to look like a man and compare himself to them, because for his companions he was only a dumb kid with abilities, that made them laugh and helped them, but he wanted ...
Cowboys ride through the unknown, bonded to their horses. ... Cormac McCarthy incorporates all the dramatics that make up a great western in his novel, "All the Pretty Horses." ... "He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led nowhere at all" (254). ... He felt as if he was seeing all the beauty in the world in that moment. ... The metaphor of John morphing into the shadow of his horse proves that he feels connected to his horse. ...
Assignment The most vivid character in Cormac McCarthy's, "All the Pretty Horses," is the landscape itself. ... Response There is not much which can be considered tangible in Cormac McCarthy's novel, "All the Pretty Horses." ... This image of her is bewitching and the supernatural element of it is shown in the words "real horse, real rider, real land and sky and yet a dream withal." ...
The novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormic McCarthy presents us with a young mans journey through the regions of the unknown into adulthood. ... All the Pretty Horses begins with the funeral of John Grady Cole's grandfather. ... This was the beginning of all their troubles. ... In the following paragraphs I will be explaining All the Pretty Horses as a novel of choices. ... He abandons his horse, along with all his clothing, as not to have any metal on him, and hides in a ditch until the storm is over. ...
Everywhere I looked there was either a little baby miniature horse or a full grown, very pretty miniature horse. ... I got to feed all of the horses their oats for the day, and when I did that, they all fought. ... While the baby miniature horses were in training to be shown, most of all of the other horses were show quality. ... As I was on my way to look at all of the miniature horses, I didn't think they would ever be as beautiful as they were. ... Pretty amazing....
Bart, like John Grady in All the Pretty Horses, was thrown into an enigmatic situation: the cupcakes were a hazard, an arbitrary circumstance injected into Bart's sphere of existence, which was influential enough to change Bart's life, even if it was as insignificant as a tray of cupcakes diverting Bart's path across the kitchen. ... His quest, true to mythic form, is initiated by Hazard; the invocation of life-changing circumstance uprooted John Grady from his world, comprised of the ranch and the horses it sheltered. ... The hazard arrived in the form of a scrawny rapscallion ...
