Horses are such beautiful imagery and even the word gives the title a melodious ring to it.
I finished All the pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
All the Pretty Horses is a western but it is also modern and therefore it has a contemporary twist. John Grady Cole has many qualities of a cowboy; the first is that he rides a horse into the dangers of adventure. He breaks away from the civilization factor, where everything is good, and right, and moral in order to step into the untamed wilderness. In this quest, he becomes tainted when he has to break the law in order to do what is right overall. The usual western hero sacrifices himself for civilization and that’s where the Christ figure comes in and the reason many people do not think it is a coincidence that the protagonist’s initials are J.C. Because there seems to be no wilderness left in America, he is forced to travel to the wide and empty ranches of Mexico. Secondly, he has an amazing ability to beautifully break horses in a short time. On only his first day on the La Purisma ranch, he broke almost all their wild horses, gaining the utmost respect from all the other characters. Also, there is always a female that the protagonist wins over with his masculine, rough, violence and also his mysterious power of charisma. The female character is usually a damsel in distress and in this novel Alejandra is in distress, although it’s emotional instead of physical. Alejandra is trapped in a world that’s been caged by her father and aunt Alfonsa. John Grady Cole is not able to save her from this world, and consequently put her in his world, but he does make her fall in love with him. This could be looked at as a failure instead of half success because he made her caged world even worse. Before, she was discontented in her entrapment, but now she is miserable because John Grady Cole gave her a taste of freedom. He stole her love and not her cage and therefore she will live in a world without him. Her depression has been heightened because she went from no feeling to an awful state of being.
One thing that I thought was interesting it it was when a character discussed the fact that in history there are no control groups. "There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was." This came from an old lady named Alfonsa, who had a lot of reasoning that all came out to be really not that complicated and thats why it was complicated, because it wasnt complicated at all. But she is the reason for the love plot in this story. It was pretty good, definitely cormac mccarthy style.
I finished All the pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
All the Pretty Horses is a western but it is also modern and therefore it has a contemporary twist. John Grady Cole has many qualities of a cowboy; the first is that he rides a horse into the dangers of adventure. He breaks away from the civilization factor, where everything is good, and right, and moral in order to step into the untamed wilderness. In this quest, he becomes tainted when he has to break the law in order to do what is right overall. The usual western hero sacrifices himself for civilization and that’s where the Christ figure comes in and the reason many people do not think it is a coincidence that the protagonist’s initials are J.C. Because there seems to be no wilderness left in America, he is forced to travel to the wide and empty ranches of Mexico. Secondly, he has an amazing ability to beautifully break horses in a short time. On only his first day on the La Purisma ranch, he broke almost all their wild horses, gaining the utmost respect from all the other characters. Also, there is always a female that the protagonist wins over with his masculine, rough, violence and also his mysterious power of charisma. The female character is usually a damsel in distress and in this novel Alejandra is in distress, although it’s emotional instead of physical. Alejandra is trapped in a world that’s been caged by her father and aunt Alfonsa. John Grady Cole is not able to save her from this world, and consequently put her in his world, but he does make her fall in love with him. This could be looked at as a failure instead of half success because he made her caged world even worse. Before, she was discontented in her entrapment, but now she is miserable because John Grady Cole gave her a taste of freedom. He stole her love and not her cage and therefore she will live in a world without him. Her depression has been heightened because she went from no feeling to an awful state of being.
One thing that I thought was interesting it it was when a character discussed the fact that in history there are no control groups. "There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was." This came from an old lady named Alfonsa, who had a lot of reasoning that all came out to be really not that complicated and thats why it was complicated, because it wasnt complicated at all. But she is the reason for the love plot in this story. It was pretty good, definitely cormac mccarthy style.
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