Every book has things that make the read so enjoyable. In All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, he uses techniques that make the book so enjoyable. It’s a story with two sides. For example, the book is a huge love story between John Grady Cole (main character) and Alejandra daughter of the owners of the ranch. The other side of the book is that there's too much death that goes along with the love. The author does a great job making sure of the writing elements that are incorporated throughout

All The Pretty Horses Essay The boys’ hair flowed gracefully in the wind just as their horses’ manes did. Their horses traveled across their open, plain paradise as the boys traveled toward their own paradise. All was well for these boys have nothing to lose; they do however have to opportunity to gain. Troubles afoot on the edge of the horizon, and their youthful naivety will lead them to it. One boy, particularly well versed in his own idealism as well as fear, centers this novel. Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, through his two acclaimed novels, All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing, details the physical and spiritual journey of two young characters, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, who yearn for lives on unblemished lands where they can make their own decisions, but come to realize that life’s experiences can make those decisions for you. John and Billy begin the expedition full of youthful innocence only to confront the everyday harsh realities of the modern world, realities that test

behind the comfort of all they know can be a challenge to many, but this step is crucial to the process of maturing and becoming an independent adult. In recent generations, adolescents often leave their homes around the age of eighteen, when they continue their education at college. In 1949, when All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy is set, going to college is rare, and many children begin their occupations early in life. John Grady Cole, the protagonist in All the Pretty Horses, decides to leave

Gravelle 1 Kameron Gravelle Professor Tiffany Intro. To Lit. 13 November 2014 All the Pretty Horses After reading All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, I am surprised at the amount of literary elements that I noticed as I read. John Grade Cole is the stories protagonist who encounters conflicts in the story that draw us in. I am fond of the word choice that makes us as readers feel like we 're actually in the story experiencing the events that take place. The amount of verisimilitude in the

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, takes place during the late 1940s. It is a story about a young man named John Grady Cole, a sixteen year old who is the last of a generation of the West Texas ranchers in his family. John Grady Cole takes a journey across the border to Mexico, after his grandfather's death, to retain his dream of living the cowboy life that he grew up with.As the story unfolds, John Gady Cole encounters a variety of obstacles that determines if his dreams are meant to be

The first two volumes of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy “All the Pretty Horses,” and “The Crossing” appear at first to differ in the typical style of extreme brutality noted in Cormac McCarthy’s previous works such as “Blood Meridian”. Despite the seemingly less violent events in the two novels “All the Pretty Horses,” and “The Crossing” actually continue with the grim, and dark style habitually used by McCarthy. Not only do the novels follow the classic style of Cormac McCarthy’s works, but they

All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy, is set in Texas right outside of the Mexico border. The book opens with John Grady, a sixteen year old boy, attending his grandfather’s funeral. John Grady has grown up on his grandfather’s ranch, and now that he has died the mother is going to sell the unprofitable ranch. John’s parents are separated at this time, his mother longs for a better life off of the ranch while his father is a professional gambler. His father seems to have lung cancer, but this