The Red Pony

In the book, The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, a character named Jody must cope with loss in order to improve his character throughout the story. The book, which is a classic, focuses on the struggles a ten year old boy encounters which eventually lead him to unleashing his full potential as the protagonist in the story. This astonishing novel contains descriptive foreshadowing, engaging conflicts, and distinct tones.

John Grady is not your average cowboy. All the Pretty Horses is not your typical coming-of-age story. This is an honest tale. Cormac McCarthy follows John Grady as he embarks on his journey of self-discovery across the border. Armed with a few pesos in his pocket, a strong horse and a friend at his side, John Grady thinks he’s ready to take on the Wild West of Mexico. At their final steps in America, a stranger, aged thirteen, joins our heroes. This unexpected variable named Blevins challenges John Grady, testing his character and pushing him to uncomfortable limits. The dynamic of their relationship reveals John Grady’s capacity to care for others as he shelters this kid from the hardships of reality and the

In 1860, a mail carrying service called Central Overland California and Pike 's Peak Express Company, although notorious as The Pony

Lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. I was so bored that I was going to meet up with the gang when i heard yelling from the other room. “ Johnny get in here and clean this room! It’s a mess and I ain’t gonna raise messy children.”, said Dad. I knew i hadn’t made that mess. They got drunk and threw a lot of things everywhere. But, my parents just don’t like me much and I’m used to that. After I finished cleaning the room. I immediately went into the kitchen. They don’t care about me at all. They wouldn’t even care if I died. It was a late afternoon and I was starting to get hungry. I looked in the fridge for something to eat. There wasn’t much. Just baked beans, a loaf of bread and ham. I decided I would have a ham sandwich.

The hard-working ranch father loved his son but also lived by a realist unlike his son, “Last chance son, you had better pick a horse that you have some hope of riding one day” (Harrison 500). Kenneth’s mother Nell was very supportive to her son’s dreams and hopes of owning a colt. An author of New York times Rebecca Mead states, “We see private bedroom conversations between Rob and Nell, in which the mother, who recognizes her son’s dreaminess as an admirable sensitivity, not as an irritating handicap, challenges her stubborn husband’s rulings”. This support for her son is shown when the little filly is injured and Ken’s mother makes a poultice for the injury every

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

The end of John Grady Cole’s life in Texas spurs a new life in Mexico. At the death of his grandfather’s life, all that John Grady has known is taken away from him. His mother’s decision to sell his grandfather’s property and his father’s willingness to let her do it puts John Grady in a place where he no longer knows where he stands. Accompanied by his best friend Lacey Rawlins, the two run off to Mexico to create a new life with the horses. The unexpected company of Jimmy Blevins turns their smooth journey into one that makes sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole into a man. Throughout All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy writes John’s coming of age transition, or Bildungsroman, as shown by the archetypes and blood motif and parallel structure.

The Journey of Crazy Horse is a biography written by Joseph M. Marshall, III. It was copyrighted in 2004 and published by the Penguin Group in London. Joseph goes and takes a legend, and shows you that behind the legend of Crazy Horse that he was just a man, like the rest of us. But not only that, he shows us part of the way of the Lakota life during the life of Crazy Horse and how that had changed with the invasion of the whites.

Born in 1933, McCarthy grew up the son of a prominent lawyer as one of six children. Despite his upper-class upbringing, McCarthy dropped out of the University of Tennessee, couldn’t hold a steady job, and asked his first wife to support him while he wrote his first book, which consequently lead to their divorce. Even after his writing earned him widespread acclaim, McCarthy still continued to live in hotels, cut his own hair, and do his laundry at a Laundromat. After living in Spain where he became fluent in the language, McCarthy moved to the Southwest where he has lived since the 1970s. During an interview with The New York Times in 1992 Richard B. Woodward recorded that, “McCarthy doesn't write about places he hasn't visited, and he has made dozens of similar scouting forays to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and across the Rio Grande into Chihuahua, Sonora and Coahuila. The vast blankness of the Southwest desert served as a metaphor for the nihilistic violence in his last novel, "Blood Meridian," published in 1985. And this unpopulated, scuffed-up terrain again dominates the background in "All the Pretty Horses," which will appear next month from Knopf” (Woodward). Other prominent works by McCarthy include Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), No Country for Old Men (2005), The Road (2006), and The Sunset Limited (2006): all of which take place in the American West.

When I first heard about Ponyboy, I thought that he was a bit inexperienced and lacking in street smarts, like the other Greasers said. Ponyboy also can be called a jack-of-all-trades, being talented in the arts. However, on the other hand, he is lost in this world due to his situations right now; his parents dead, him being a Greaser, and not always getting along with his brothers.

The book “Blood Red Horse” by K. M. Grant is a historic fiction novel set in England and Palestine during King Richard’s Crusades. I especially enjoyed this book because it colorfully retold the story of the Christians struggles to take back the city from the Muslims that were holding the city and disrespecting the sacred pieces of the Christian religion, such as the Jewish temples. The plot is very exciting and keeps the reader enthralled with every turn of the page because of the vivid details and exiting action the author masterfully tells.

Crazy Horse was born in 1840 near Rapid City ,South Dakota. He was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who fought against the removal to a reservation in the Black Hills. In 1876 he joined with Cheyenne in a surprise attack against General. George Crook, Then united forces with Chief Sitting Bull for the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In 1877, Crazy Horse surrendered and was killed by a soldiers. Since his death, Crazy Horse has become a great mythical figure.

A mustang is a free roaming horse of the American west that first came or descended from horses that came to America from the Spanish. Mustangs are often called wild horses to, but because they are descended from once domesticated horses, they are properly defined as feral horses. The original mustangs were Colonial Spanish horses, but many other breeds America types of horses contributed to the modern mustang. Most contain a greater genetic mixture of ranch stock and more recent breed releases, while a few are relatively unchanged, most are strongly represented in the isolated populations.

Ponyboy is a greaser (poor) his friends are too, but there are people called the Socs (rich) both of these groups hate each other because each group is different. The government is debating whether Ponyboy should stay with his brother Darry or be taken into the system. Ponyboy should be taken into the system because he hangs out with people who smoke,fight,and drink.

The Red Pony by author John Steinbeck is a very notable book for young adults. The central and recurring theme of the four stories told within this short novel is life and death. The stories also deal with conflict between old and new. Unlike most novels for young adults this book is different because John Steinbeck does not try to soften or hide old age and death, but instead presents these themes as they are in reality. The stories tell how the main character, Jody Tiflin, becomes more responsible as he deals with the disappointments and sadness, as well as the successes of real life.