Category: All the Pretty Horses

Essay on All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy: Analysis of the Protagonist John Grady Cole In literature it is not uncommon for the author to give an essential character an atypical, unfamiliar background for the sake of grabbing the readers attention and to set up a gripping story. This is the case with the…

Reader’s Reflection on All The Pretty Horses: Book Review When you were young, did you ever want to leave your frustrations and set off on an adventure? Just you and your best friend off to a new place, away from a chaotic life. All the Pretty Horses is a tale of love, violence, and friendship.…

Critical Analysis of Idea and Major Themes In McCarthys All the Pretty Horses In McCarthys, All the Pretty Horses, John Gradys character is constantly used to romanticize and challenge the myth of a cowboy. In The Searchers, John Ford shows a different way to romanticize and challenge the myth of a cowboy. Even though the…

Symbolism in All the Pretty Horses: Critical Analysis In a story stuffed with gunshots and thrusts of a cut, it is a small shock that we hear so a lot about blood inside the book. Human blood is, of course, tied to the trouble of viciousness, in addition to the concept that for many Mexicans,…

Essay on All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy: Analysis of Traits of Jimmy Blevins Jimmy Blevins, one of the main characters in All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, has some questionable attributes that make him a little less than admirable. Blevins is a very sensitive thirteen-year-old boy who runs away to Mexico due…