Sunday, February 3, 2019
All the Pretty Horses Essay -- essays papers
All the Pretty Horses tail end Grady Cole, the last in a long line of west Texas ranchers, is, at sixteen, poised on the sorrowful, painful edge of manhood. When he realizes the only life he has of all time known is disappearing into the past and that cowboys are as doomed as the Comanche who came before them, he leaves on a dangerous and harrowing tour into the beautiful and utterly foreign world that is Mexico. In the guise of a classic Western, All the Pretty Horses is at its heart a melodious and elegiac coming-of-age story about love, friendship, and loyalty that will leave John Grady, and the reader, changed forever. When his mother decides to sell the cattle ranch he has grown up working, John Grady Cole and his friend Lacey Rawlins set out on hogback for Mexico, a land free of the fences and highways that have begun to invade west Texas, a land where the boys are not able to read the look in a mans eye. As they approach the Rio Grande, they are joined by the fresh an d mysterious Jimmy Blevins, whose fine horse, hot-blooded temper, and talent with a side arm are as certain...
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