Jody Thiflin In The Red Pony

For example, Jody’s father mentioned, “‘Jody,’... ‘the buzzard didn’t kill the pony. Don’t you know that?” (36). This demonstrates that there is growing tension between Jody and his father because Jody’s father does not sympathize with Jody when he loses his pony. Also, the conflict between Jody and his father make the story enticing as the author demonstrates the constant struggles present in the father- son relationship. In addition, the author narrates, “Billy had failed again, and he felt badly about it. He had to cure the pony now” (25). This shows that Billy Buck had failed to keep his promise to keep the pony from getting sick, eventually leading to conflict between Jody and Billy. Also, the author utilizes conflicts to encourage the reader to think about what might happen between the characters involved, creating suspense. To sum up, the many enticing conflicts between Jody and other characters encourage the audience to continue reading by creating

One thing the book talks about is keeping childhood innocence. Mostly through the characters of the story the novel also shows how easily experience can change people and cause them to lose their youthful traits. Dallys rough youth has made him tough and fearsome, and he seems not to care about anything. But Dally has a soft spot too caring for Johnny.

In the novel, Ponyboy couldn’t even walk a short distance home without getting jumped by the Socials. This idea is heartbreaking to realize that a child can’t safely walk around his or hers neighborhood without being harmed in some areas. The novel shows a numerous amount of young adults being killed or harmed due to gang violence. For example, Johnny Cade killed Bob Sheldon in self-defense, which was devastating to his family, friends, and girlfriend. The author also represents a positive side to violence at the end of the novel. The rumble between the two groups without weapons, helped end the aggression and hatred between them. This uncovered the common interest that they shared and allowed them to relate to each other on an emotional and physical level.

But that day I wondered about him. What was he like? ... I looked at Bob's picture and I could begin to see the person we had killed. A reckless, hot-tempered boy, cocky and scared stiff at the same time.” Ponyboy thinks about what Bob was like.

Caitlin loves Billy’s character even though he is homeless. Caitlin is fascinated with Billy’s character rather than what he has and his status. Caitlin is engrossed in Billy because he is clean. Billy keeps his clothes clean, himself clean and his carriage clean. In the passage Billy’s cave (p. 62).Caitlin says that his carriage is clean and warm. Caitlin is also attracted to billy’s character because he is not a normal hobo. Billy is smart, clean, polite and calm. In the passage Caitlin and mopping (p. 35).Caitlin says that Billy as ‘so calm’ when he exited McDonalds. This shows that Caitlin enjoys Billy’s company despite Billy not having any

Billie Jo Kelby is not a boy. She’s a girl; a wiry, thin, redheaded girl that looks more like her father than her mother. She lives on the Great Plains in 1935, during the great drought known as the Dust Bowl. She lives with her pregnant mother and her father, and life seems good, or as good as it will get in her dusty world.

When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de change uh life,"(80). This quote shows that she can has enough self respect to stand up for herself when she gets pushed so far. Then Jody dies and Tea Cake comes along and whisks her away to the everglades and

She has an on and off again relationship with Mark Brittain. Everyone in their school thinks that they are just the perfect couple. Moby, Sarah Byrnes, Jody, and Brittain are all in the same CAT class (contemporary American thought), where they were talking about abortions. When Jody and Brittain were "separated", Jody and Eric staring hanging out. One day while they were hanging out, Jody told Eric that she had an abortion, "'You can't imagine the emptiness. There's a piece that isn't getting talked about in class. Mark took me to the clinic, but he dropped me off two blocks away because he thought somebody might recognize him. When I can out, I was just lost. All Mark wanted to talk about was how we'd made the right choice and how his life is no longer ruined. I just wanted to cry and have somebody hold me'" (151). Because she was embarrassed, Jody never told anyone what she told Eric. It took courage for her to speak up to Eric and tell him what happened. Jody also showed courage by facing the abortion alone. She didn't have anyone to tell her "instructions" or what to do. All she had to count on was herself and because she had enough courage to do so, she made

Jody was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to raise and train his very own pony. He makes a connection with Gabilan and grows to care for him. Unfortunately, Gabilan becomes sick in the cold one day. Jody and the ranch hand, Billy Buck attempt to nurse him back to health, but their futile attempts are no match for the harshness of nature, and Gabilan eventually runs off to die. Jody goes looking for Gabilan and sees in the distance “his legs moving slowly and convulsively. And in a circle around him stood the buzzards, waiting for the moment of death they know so well...The first buzzard sat on the pony’s head and its beak had just risen dripping with dark eye fluid” (35). Having someone/something you care for die in a morbid matter is a sad experience, but discovering Gabilan in a bloody, gruesome way like this is a once in a lifetime experience that would change anyone, especially a ten year old boy. Another mind-altering reality that Jody witnesses is when he witnesses life and death at the same time. There is a pregnant horse about to give birth on the ranch. Jody is specifically excited because once Nellie gives birth, the colt will be his to raise, but while experiencing the miracle of life, things take a sharp, unpleasant turn because the newborn colt is awkwardly positioned inside its mother, forcing Jody to witness “the hammer rise and fall again on the flat forehead. Then Nellie fell heavily to her side and quivered for a moment” (74). Billy then takes his pocket-knife and drives it into the stomach of Nellie to discharge the colt. Very few people are exposed to something like this, so it is clearly an event that changes Jody, further establishing that he is a dynamic character. Another representation of the barbarity on the farm is when Jody talks about killing the livestock in such a casual matter. He thinks that “pig killing is fascinating, with the

Home,” (51). Jody also forbade her to tell stories with the townspeople because it he thought it unbecoming. By trying to suppress her voice he is trying to control her identity of who he wants her to be and not who she really is. Janie stands up to Jody finally on her deathbed telling him “Ah’m just tryin’ tuh make you know what kinda person Ah is befo’ it’s too late,”

Jody had to ask the towns people what the name of the town was. After discovering the lack of amenities offered in the town, Jody took it upon himself to turn this all black ghost town into a thriving town. He did this by boasting his masculinity, and using his self-determined power he built up the town and became mayor. This began after he discovered that Eatonville had no town. He immediately went to Captain Eaton to buy more land. “‘He sho did. Come off wid de papers in his pocket. He done called a meetin’ on his porch tomorrow’” (45). Immediately Jody takes a position of authority in the town. Not only does he buy land, build a store and promotes the town, he eventually is named the mayor of the town. One day after being named mayor he takes it upon himself to buy street lamps for the town. Dissatisfied that he cannot control when it will be light and when it will be dark. “Us poor weak humans can’t do nothin’ tuh hurry it up nor to slow it down. All we can do, if we want any light after de settin’ or befo’ de risin’, is tuh make some light ourselves” (53). Jody’s inability to let fate occur was one of his most attractive qualities, consequently it was also one of his most unappealing

“Listen, Jody, you ain’t de Jody ah run off down de road wid. You’se whut’s left after he died. Ah run off tuh keep house wid you in uh wonderful way. But you wasn’t satisfied wid me de way Ah was. Naw! Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me (Hurston, 86.)” This was the moment in the book when Jody realized that his decision of using Janie and shaping her in the eyes of Jody was completely wrong and

At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy is in intelligent, young teen, but he lacks the perspective to understand the environment around him. He can only see his side of the story and fails to understand why others act the way they do. The first example of this is his oldest brother Darry. He thinks Darry hates him because he is always giving Ponyboy a hard time about his lack of common sense, his grades,...

    Jody is complex. He represents a whole host of things, including the attempt of the black man to gain wealth and power, his effort to pattern success and failure after the model of the white man ("she was proud of what she saw. Kind of portly like white folks"), and the false sense of ownership that money brings.

Their whole relationship was foreshadowed previously when Jody bought a mule from an owner partly because of Janie but primarily because he wanted to show how powerful he is. When he buys the mule from the previous owner, he is buying Janie because when he does so she treats him as a savior since she felt bad for that poor mule. The mule was treated horribly and soon when Jody began to beat Janie so was she. She couldn’t speak out against Jody because when she did insult him in front of all the other men he beat her.