The Red Pony: Death and Rebirth Essay

This paper can analyze the context within which the work of art, "Death on the Pale Horse" was created. The discussion also will determine the medium that the creator selected still as highlight a number of the additional fascinating aspects of this Benjamin West painting.

The European settlement of North America met its fiercest opponent, the Lakota also known as the Western Sioux, who inhabited most of the Great Plains. The Oglala tribe, a branch of the Sioux nation were key in the resistance against the white man. At the heart of their resistance stood crazy horse, a warrior that had no equal. Crazy Horse fought for the traditions of his people, until those same people wearied of war and in some cases, turned against him. Chief Crazy Horse led an extraordinary life and will always be remembered.

He had never done that before, he learnt to resist and fight. Meanwhile, he also became very negative.“I used to make A's in English, mostly because my teacher made us do compositions all the time. I mean, I know I don't talk good English ……Now I was lucky to get a D on a composition.”(Hinton Chapter 12)，his grades began to drop.He could get A’s in English before，whereas, after Johnny's death, he was grateful that he got a D on his composition. Therefore, the Ponyboy after Johnny's death had a huge contrast to his previous personality and

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

John Steinbeck uses symbolism to signify ideas and qualities by giving them a meaning. For instance, Candy’s dog. Candy’s dog represent the fate awaiting anyone who has outlived his or her purpose. Candy’s dog is old and weak so he is no longer needed in the world. Although, Carlson promises to kill the dog painlessly, his insistence that the old dog must die supports a cruel natural law that the strong will dispose of the weak. “That dog of Candy's is so God damn old he can't hardly walk. Stinks like hell, too. Ever' time he comes into the bunk house I can smell him for two, three days. Why'n't you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up? I can smell that dog a mile away. Got no teeth, damn near blind, can't eat. Candy feeds him milk. He can't chew nothing else." Candy knows this lesson, for he fears that he himself is coming to an end when he will no longer be useful at the ranch.

Bessie and James were very much in love, and very excited about the arrival of the first child. One night after the couple had gone to bed, a horrible sound awakened them from a deep sleep. A horse in the barn kicked over a lantern. The horrible noise coming from the burning barn was the sound of the livestock perishing in the fire. The barn and livestock were a total loss, but they could not dwell on this matter long; for the baby was soon to come. As the two worked to get the babies room ready, and the clothes made. Bessie’s mother gave them the rocking chair that was in her nursery. It was not long, sooner than the couple expected, James Jr, was born on June 11th

Joe and Jane live at the new ranch for many years, but as they age Jane becomes increasingly worried about Joe getting hurt in his work. One of her recurring dreams depicts him being thrown from a horse. Soon after, Jane sees a black stallion in a corral that is

Towards the middle of the story, a boy named Johnny had killed a Soc that was drowning Ponyboy. He and Ponyboy fled the city to another town, and hid in an abandon church there for a week. When they were going to leave, they realized the church was on fire and there was kids trapped inside. Johnny and Pony were good friends and they decided to go help the children. After they rescued the children, they had to escape the burning, ravaged building. A flaming, steaming hot beam from the ceiling fell on Johnny. After this happened, Pony passed out, “ I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost

Moreover, in Chapter Thirteen, as the Joad family continues on their journey, they meet the Wilson family. The two families decide to carry on with their trip together. It is at this point that Steinbeck follows the pattern of the circle of life. Steinbeck begins by writing about the rebirth of Tom Joad. Next, Grampa dies. Following this, there is a birth for the Joads when they add the Wilson family to their own. However, as previously stated, in order to represent the hardships of the journey, many more deaths than births occur in the novel. In Chapter Eighteen alone, Noah leaves the family, the Joads continue on without the Wilson family, and Granma dies. It may seem like these losses would tear the family apart, but Ma Joad understands the concept of family, and tries her hardest to keep the family as one unit. For example, Ma Joad sits up all night with Granma's dead body, jut so the family can cross the border. "'The fambly hadda get acrost'" (312).

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

After raiding the Snakes with High Back Bone his father bestowed a great honor to him, the name of his father, and his father before him, Crazy Horse. As his feats on the battlefield grew, so did his reputation and respect among the Lakota people. As Crazy Horse was raiding the Crows for nearly a month, the love of his heart was taken away from him by another. With his heart broken, it took a long time until he had gotten over it.

John Steinbeck is an author that creates an illusion of life in animalistic terms. Throughout the course of the novella, animal characteristics are given to the character Lennie. The author compares the character to an animal along with explaining the physicality and interactive movement of the character. “These are made acceptable and indeed moving because of the genuine sweetness on feels in Steinbeck’s nature and because he sees these human beings as being at least as dignified as animals” (Allen 325). Human beings have instincts and behaviors that are similar to animals. Steinbeck’s personal interest of humans portray under the living qualities of animals. “Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water…” (Steinbeck 3). Steinbeck compares

Jody becomes very attached to the pony and very protective. One day the pony gets wet in the rain, becomes very sick and dies. Jody is crushed and blames Billy Buck. The death of the pony makes Jody believe that he should not really trust anyone completely. It also teaches him the pain of loss. The second chapter tells the story of Gitano, an old man who has returned to the ranch to die where he was born. He leaves to go into the mountains and takes Easter, an old horse that is also close to death. Jody is sad to lose a friend and sad that Gitano has left to die alone. In the third chapter, Jody is given a second chance at a pony when Nellie the mare becomes pregnant and he gets to tend to her. Billy Buck, trying to win back Jody's trust, spends time with Jody and shows him how to care for Nellie. However, Billy Buck has to kill Nellie during delivery because the colt is in the wrong position. Jody seems to blame himself for Nellie’s death because he wanted another colt so badly. In the final chapter Jody’s grandfather comes for a visit. Jody loves to listen to his grandfather’s stories of the old west; however Carl Tiflin is tired of his stories and loudly complains one morning. Jody’s grandfather overhears and feels badly and is very hurt. Jody feels compassion for his Grandfather and willingly gives up doing what he would like in order to spend time with him.

The rocking horse is short story in which we could see how our world works, how people think and how people die, this story is about a child called Paul. However, in a certain way, this story is about us too. We all are Paul, living at his house always hearing those whispers asking for money.

The ‘horse whisperer’, Tom, believes in gaining an animal’s trust and getting the horse to come to you. He is kind and appalled by the treatment of Pilgrim when he is first brought to him terrorised. However, despite his beliefs and the