ipl-logo

How Does Cormac Mccarthy Use Imagery In All The Pretty Horses

1214 Words5 Pages

Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses:
Well now his most recognized piece of art like stated in the title, was one of a kind. Never had a story been so well organized in plot. This book created an absurd amount of feelings to the reader and really made you think you were actually there with the crazy vivid imagery used by Cormac McCarthy. The story took place at the near border of the U.S-Mexican boundary in a small town off the city of San Angelo. The main characters, who happened to be teenagers in the story, John Grady Cole and his fellow pardoner Lacey Rawlins, go off on an adventure to explore the life in a distinguished country. This decision, that was done out of the bloom, confronted the two youngsters with vast complications along …show more content…

Without this tool the point that Sir Cormac tried to evoke from paper to mind, wouldn’t be as clear. His words are so advanced that it requires knowledge in a certain area of the dictionary. I, myself, consider being a pro with words but like anything in the world nobody can master it all. Therefore, I found myself questioning half of what was put in each quotation that imagery was portrayed in. In essence to that, the capacity level that a reader may be in doesn’t really affect much at any cause. The story plot that the novel contained flew in ease and understanding to one’s familiarity. But what was amazing what his form of playing with diction too that surprised me the most asides the tricks he played with imagery. Without imagery, a book would pretty much have no meaning and would lose the sense of reading it till the very end. And what I loved about the author was that he kept on putting in words purposely in the right place at the right time of keep you in the game of entertainment. For example in quote’s like, “The guard with no rifle came to the rear of the truck. Vámonos, he said.
Rawlins raised up from where he was leaning on the bed of the truck.Sólo el chico, said the guard. Vámonos. Rawlins looked at John Grady. What are they goin to do? said Blevins. They aint goin to do …show more content…

One of them happens to be the freedom of love which can be greatly compared to a good amount of novels out there. For example, one of the best examples that can be made in comparison to All the Pretty Horses is Shakespeare’s one and only Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet can fall under numerous themes as well, but the one that stood out the most just like it did with McCarthy’s is that of freedom of love. John Grady Cole isn’t allowed to be dating the Mexican ranch owner’s daughter. The father forbids her to stop seeing him which relates to something that Romeo went through throughout the plot of his play. ““Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues” is the quote that clearly explains the attitude that Juliet’s parents have on the idea of having relationships among the enemies of the village. Since that is precisely what the main character in All the Pretty Horses goes through, it makes it easy to say that both stories fall victim to freedom of love. Another theme that is exposed in the story is independency. John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins set out for an adventure to the a land they have never before been to. That right there gets point out as an independent act between the two because at the age that they are in, it is pretty uncommon to see someone do what they got to do. Another them that outstood were the independency that the boys took out of to unfold the escapade they went on. This theme relates to Philip Connors’

Show More
Related
195 Words | 1 Pages

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy there are many different lines of imagery. All of these lines convey different moods and each line can make someone feel a different way. For example his imagery can make you feel almost numb.. One example of this is,” Nights dark beyond darkness and days more gray each one than what had gone before” (3). The paints a picture of all gray.

Read More
224 Words | 1 Pages

Cormac McCarthy uses an informal style when writing All the Pretty Horses. “His name aint Smith its Rawlins. And he aint a criminal. I’ve known him all my life.

Read More
607 Words | 3 Pages

Some elements that make a book a classic are its history, its theme, its relevance, its longevity, its artistic quality, and its universal appeal. In the book, The Princes Bride by William Goldman, a girl named Buttercup and a farm boy named Westley fall in love, but he must sail to the new world. On the trip he gets captured by pirates. Various adventures and problems prevent them from getting back together permanently until the end of the story. The Princes Bride is a classic because of its universal appeal and its style in which it was written.

Read More
958 Words | 4 Pages

In All The Pretty Horses, a western written by Cormic McCarthy, there is an underlying theme of oppression and over sexualization in regards to the female characters in the book. In addition to women being persecuted, they are nameless, and get lost within the background of the novel seemingly without much character development, and put into the position of caretakers or behind the scenes workers. To further sustain, courting or being in relations with a woman is signifying settling as well as becoming “boring” and uninteresting, all ideas that are counterintuitive with the western idealization. In westerns all across the board, getting attached to a woman is a sign of weakness and settling down, something that doesn't entertain the genre.

Read More
822 Words | 4 Pages

In many great works, there is often a layer of thematic writing that the author placed for the more astute in their reading audience, and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is no exception. Throughout the novel, McCarthy succeeds in expertly lacing his compelling narrative with symbolic language, thematic tones, and a deeper meaning that those who wish to may uncover. Through the reading No Country, one is able to see such literary elements as the personification of evil, the permanence of sin, a corruption of the common theme of communion, and a strong connection between the setting or geography and the events of the story, oftentimes relating back to biblical and mythological foundations. Often times, one can find symbolism and personification in the same sense

Read More
889 Words | 4 Pages

In All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, the main protagonist, John Grady Cole, exiles himself to Mexico when his known and beloved way of life is threatened. This experience to him was both alienating and enriching. He gets to where he is going only to have everything he has worked for taken from his hands. He is left alone and sad, but full of new insights about the world around him. John’s relationship with and the death of Jimmy Blevins, his love for Alejandra and her abandoning him, and his lost position at the hacienda ranch are three main events that leave John alienated, but enriched with worldly ideas and understandings he would take to the grave.

Read More
967 Words | 4 Pages

All the Wise and Pretty Horses “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” (Helen Keller). Just as Helen Keller said, people cannot mature and develop character without experiencing life.

Read More
345 Words | 2 Pages

The setting of the book appears to have a big influence so far in the story; the reason being the main characters are animals and the setting takes place in a barn. Major reminds me of someone who appears majestic and is fairly important, which others would look up to. The beginning of the book reminds me of Charlotte’s Web because it gives the same feeling of fiction when the animals begin to talk. I was curious to know what ‘tushes’ on a boar was from page 26 in paragraph 1, so I found the definition and discovered that it is the long teeth that the pigs have. Boxer reminds me a football player because he is tough and huge.

Read More
717 Words | 3 Pages

He hopped that this story would give value to his reader and make them see things the way he saw them. Which he did cause where still learning about him and the book till this day and the books been published since fifty years ago. But my main point is that the book is both powerful and beautiful.

Read More
1242 Words | 5 Pages

Throughout this semester I have learned a lot about different writers and how their stories have formulated and how some of the different stories have related to the other one. When taking this course I was so confused on what the term of Major American writers meant and I have learned because of the books we have read and I have learned a lot about the different themes and what I liked most was learning about the author’s history and their story and how they related it to the themes of the book. Throughout the semester, we read five books called My Antonia, Winesburg Ohio, In Our Time, “The Bear” and Tracks. Each book had a different theme to it and followed different aspects of nature and all the characters in the book.

Read More
444 Words | 2 Pages

The underlying theme of the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare was the clash between the company pursuing their personal desires or deciding to conform to what is socially expected. The circumstances of this affray were on display when Romeo presented his plot of marrying Juliet to Friar Laurence. The consequences of Romeo deciding to pursue personal desire were also on display when displayed his disapproval to his punishment for extirpating Tybalt. These instances culminate Shakespeare's idea of that the pursuit of personal desire not always rewarding the aspirant. The asininity of carelessly pursuing your personal desires and not thinking about the ramifications was on display when Romeo presented his notion of espousing Juliet.

Read More
945 Words | 4 Pages

Edgar Allan Poe’s use of literary devices to show the how fear of the characters in his stories are both helpful and harmful to them. Poe shows how the fears and obsessions of the narrators in his tales either lead to their inevitable death, or their miraculous survival. Edgar Allan Poe uses many literary devices in his texts, such as symbols, ironies, and figurative language, to show the strange and distorted ways of the characters, and the repercussion of their fears and obsessions. In Poe’s stories, a literary device he uses frequently throughout his stories, are symbols.

Read More
311 Words | 2 Pages

The most commonly expressed theme in/of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare that has been seen throughout the acts is love. The play/novel expresses different types of love from friendships to romances. The first sign of love expressed was brotherly love/friendship. A pair of characters that express this love are romeo and mercutio.

Read More
957 Words | 4 Pages

Introduction 100 words In this film called The Dressmaker directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and a book called Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey they will be comparing and contrasting the use of themes in the film and the book. Revenge in The Dressmaker happens when Tilly burned the town; in Jasper Jones Eliza burned her home. Then in Family Tilly and Molly has a rough start but when Tilly came back they turned out to be happy with each other, while in Jasper Jones Charlies mum and Charlie are happy at the start but went downhill very quickly when Laura disappeared. The themes are revenge, death, and family.

Read More
806 Words | 4 Pages

Romeo and Juliet is a well-known play written by William Shakespeare. Even though it is famous for being a love story, Shakespeare demonstrates that rebellion is closely tied together either it through the characters: Juliet, Romeo and Tybalt. By defying their families, authority and society's expectations, they set in motion the events in this tragedy. Romeo’s rebellion against society's expectations and his own family, the Montagues, is because of his love. His love of Rosaline is his first demonstration of defiance.

Read More

More about How Does Cormac Mccarthy Use Imagery In All The Pretty Horses

Related Topics

Open Document