1. Compare one of the camping scenes with Rawlins and John Grady with a camping scene from Hemingway (for example, The Sun Also Rises or one of the Nick Adams stories). 2. Compare and contrast the breaking of the horses in Chapter II with Faulkner’s “Spotted Horses.” 3. What is […]
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Abrazo (Spanish) embrace. adobada sauce marinated sauce. Afuera (Spanish) outside. Al contrario (Spanish) to the contrary. Alameda (Spanish) boulevard. Alcaide (Spanish) jailer or guard. Alcatraz shape to stuff things in. Algo mas? (Spanish) Anything else? Algun parentesco? (Spanish) Any kinship? Amansadores (Spanish) horse trainers, but very special ones who talk […]
Read more Study Help Full Glossary for All the Pretty HorsesCritical Essay The Horses of All the Pretty Horses and the American Dream
The horses in All the Pretty Horses play a critical role, which is why specific horses are listed as characters in the front of these notes. The horses are more than a means of transportation for John Grady and Rawlins; they are friends. For example, when John Grady Cole finds […]
Read more Critical Essay The Horses of All the Pretty Horses and the American DreamCormac McCarthy Biography
Cormac McCarthy was born Charles McCarthy (Cormac is the Gaelic version of Charles) on July 20, l933, in Providence, Rhode Island. In l937, the family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where his father, Charles Joseph McCarthy, was on the legal staff of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The third of six children, […]
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Summary From Saltillo, John Grady catches rides north on a truck with farm workers whose goodwill he appreciates. They arrive in Monclova at midnight. He sleeps on a bench and the next day has a breakfast of coffee and pan dulce before catching two more rides. He bathes in an […]
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Summary Handcuffed, John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins are driven north on their horses for three days. At night, they are manacled to their saddle stirrups and forced to sleep under one blanket this way. They arrive in Encantada, and, while sitting on a bench on the main street, John […]
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Summary John Grady’s last words in Chapter I are that he wants to stay at La Purisima hacienda for “about a hundred years.” The hacienda is a large ranch covering about 26,000 acres in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The area has desert as well as grasslands and is edged […]
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Summary A death vigil serves as the opening scene in All the Pretty Horses. It is the year 1949, and John Grady Cole has returned to the ranch for the wake of his grandfather. It is dark and cold in the early morning when he learns from the housekeeper that […]
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John Grady Cole The protagonist of the novel; the main character around whom most of the story revolves. He is a disenfranchised 16-year-old who cannot save his family ranch, which is his rightful legacy. In Mexico, when he finds another ranch and falls in love with the only child of […]
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Set in west Texas and northern central Mexico in l949, All the Pretty Horses is subtitled “Volume One, The Border Trilogy,” indicating that it is the first of three books in a series. The tale is about two young men, John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins, who run away from […]
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