In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy writes from the third person limited perspective of the young, poor cowboy, John Grady Cole. Because of John Grady's socioeconomic status and his age, the reader assumes that he is poorly educated and considers him more street-smart (resourceful) than book-smart (intelligent). McCarthy's style, which is characterized by a lack of quotation marks and apostrophes, except when using certain contractions, reinforces this assumption. Because all of these elements

Innocence and Self Discovery In All The Pretty Horses As every person starts innocent and pure, time slowly picks away at that purity through relationships and new experiences. The journey made to find themselves reveals the hard truth that youth can’t be forever. John Grady Cole’s repetitive image of innocence throughout his journey explains his maturity when he returns home. McCarthy repeats the idea of John’s loss of innocence throughout his journey by his decisions with Blevins, his relationship

Caleb Seiwald Gorentstein English 10 July 10, 2014 A thousand splendid suns By Khaled Hosseini and All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy convey consistent flows of how a persons overall lifestyle affects what type of person they will eventually become. These books shows many examples of this from shown from the lives of Mariam, Laila and John Grady Cole To start Miriam is raised in a life of ridicule from her mother Nana for being a bastard child which her strong willed, and dream of a life with

The saying goes two’s company but three’s a crowd which means that a third person spoils the ideal amount of a couple. The novel All the Pretty Horses is a classic western story of a young man John Grady Cole who loses his father's ranch and is forced to live in an urban environment. Instead, he recruits his right-hand man Lacey Rawlins to embark on a journey to live the rural life in Mexico. The pairing of these two is the perfect mixture of characteristic as they both complement each other's personalities

In Cormac McCarthy’s novels, The Road and All the Pretty Horses, the protagonist and their companion(s) face many hardships during their respective journeys. Although each story takes place in completely different situations, they share common themes and dramatic plot points. When transformed into movies, Hollywood transforms these stories through vivid visual images that the written word does not quite grasp; overall making one work more outstanding while leaving the other to fall short of the audiences’

being optimistic and being ignorant of consequences people face for their actions (or inactions).The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is a novel about an American family and their journey on a mission trip into the Congo, in contrast, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy is a novel about John Grady and his journey into adulthood as he runs away to Mexico. Despite the superficially differences of the two novels the authors show that people’s expectations are often romanticized and due to

Rishi Mallipeddi In her essay on the Search for Utopia and the Blood imagery in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, Susan Lee describes how the landscape serves as a meaningful backdrop to John Grady Cole’s adventures in Mexico. She believes that while Cole seems to journey to Mexico purely to search for his utopia, John Grady’s underlying inspiration for the journey stems from his desire to return to “the human emotions and internal desires displaced by the intrusion of modernity”(Susan Lee

Growing Pains Everybody grows up, but some people do so earlier than others. This depends on what people experience in their lives, relative to what occurs around them. In Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, the protagonist John Grady Cole starts off feeling out of place in the world, lacking an answer as to why it is changing and why he should accept this coming change. This feeling of helplessness prompts him into leaving his home in America in search of a place where he belongs in Mexico