The Georges And The Jewels And Black Beauty: The Autobiography Of A Horse

Throughout “All the Pretty Horses,” fate plays a significant role: the idea that situations are already determined. The novel revolves heavily around fate and God, which control the destinies of the characters’ in the story. As the novel

Now she knew how a horse felt when offered a new bit and bridle for the first time” (70).

Many authors use different styles of writing and different ways to show different things and different types points of views. In the articles The Georges and the Jewels and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, the authors are both using first person point of view, but using different ways to reveal the character traits. First, In The Georges and the Jewels, the person telling the story is a little girl and also she is talking about her experiences with horses, whereas in Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, the article is being told by a horse, and the horse is telling about his life and about all the equipment that has to be used for him.

In the passages from the novels The Georges and the Jewels and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse Both were written in the first person point of view. In the first passage from The Georges and the Jewels the point of view is first and it is told in a person's point of view. In the second passage from Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse the point of view is first, but it is a horse's point of view. There are a couple more similarities and differences on how the author uses the point of view to develop a character

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The novels “The Georges and the Jewels” written by Jane Smiley and “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse” written by Anna Sewell were both written with a first person point of view to develop the characters’ personality. In the novel “The Georges and the Jewels” the point of view is told by a little girl, named Abby. The novel “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse” the point of view is told by a horse, named Black Beauty.

In the novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, the author shows how important the roles of the horses are in the story and how they relate to John Grady, the protagonist of the novel. The horse has played an important role in the development of America. It has been a form of transportation, easy muscle, and companionship. In the Wild West, it was an essential resource for a cowboy to do his daily chores. McCarthy describes horses as spiritual and as resembling the human soul; meaning that horses came in many different forms. Horses are pretty, ugly, wild, tame, etc. in the story, they have so many different descriptions and different types of personality that they appear to resemble

We all know what horses are, and how they are used for many different uses. Some are used to work on farms, some are bred to drag carriages, and some are race horses. In the passage The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley, and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell, they both use first-person view in different ways. Jane Smiley’s passage is in the point of view of a little girl, and Anna Sewell’s passage is in the horses perspective. Both of the passages use first person view to better describe the characters, but they use it in some different ways too.

"A goodlookin' horse is like a goodlookin' woman. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done." (pg.89) This quotes displays Rawlins loves horses and the fact that he compares them to a “goodlookin” woman also shows his respect for woman; which is not too high, however, his horse is always there when he needs it and relies heavily on horses for

Unbroken horses are not bound by this concept because of the common soul that they share; however, as John Grady and Rawlins break sixteen horses, these two men witness the slow dissipation of the horses’ collective selves. Only a few people can break horses the way a true cowboy should, which is to break the horse but not the horse’s spirit (Budac 10). John Grady achieves this by engraining man’s Tanha into a horse like “a virus or a parasite” (Mundik 16). McCarthy intentionally puts John Grady, the idealist, in a position where the boy must break down the idealism of horses to parallel with John Grady’s own loss of complete

John 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 ever 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 journey 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 lyrical 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

“All the Pretty Horses” cannot take place today due to the many cultural and technological differences. There is neither the same longing nor landscape present for people to want to preserve ranching. For John Grady horses were everything. His only way to travel, and “other than cattle there was no wealth proper to a man” (McCarthy 127). Horses are now mainly used for recreation rather than transportation.

In All the Pretty Horses, a feminist reader would take issue with Alfonsa’s character, and how she uses her power in attempts to control others, even though in her childhood she was controlled and oppressed herself; a feminist would make sense of these issues by understanding how Alfonsa’s past influenced her actions in the present.

I am the daughter of a livestock dealer. My father was an amazing wrangler and rancher. Throughout my life, we have bought and sold many horses--too many to count, and I have also sent my own fair share to the slaughter plants. As a young teen I had a horse we called Whino, he was a great horse for me when I was learning to ride and wanting to follow Dad around. There comes a time in a horse’s life when they are not capable of doing what they once were or that they become sore or crippled to lead a life with meaning or comfort. I was raised to understand life and death and that one will follow the other. I knew when we had

The father knows how much the horses means to his son, so giving him this job shows that he does not actually want to have to kill them. In addition, the father takes the time to ask his son about the horses when he finds his son out on the fence, “What makes them run like that?” (125). He even goes as far to ask if his son would like to own one. The narrator is hesitant to answer, not sure if it a trick question or not. He answers truthfully, saying yes that he would like to own one. It is at this moment that we first see the fathers caring side. The father is showing an interest in what matters to his son.