Abstract
This paper offers an analysis of Cormac McCarthy's novel "All The Pretty Horses" and explains the multitude of roles that nature plays in the coming-of-age of John Grady Cole. The paper focuses on Grady's growing understanding that choices have consequences.

From the Paper
"Cormac McCarthy's "All The Pretty Horses" is the coming-of-age story of John Grady Cole. The setting is Texas and the Northeastern part of Mexico shortly after the end of World War II. Grady's father wants little to do with him since coming home from the war and his mother is even more distant from him, separated from her husband."

Tags:nature, coming-of-age, landscape, horses, Mexico, love, mysticism, understanding, opportunity, hope, Grady Cole, family, violence, frontier, West

Abstract
The paper summarizes the story of "All the Pretty Horses". The writer notes the similarities to the style of William Faulkner, as seen in the long evocative sentences in the book. The writer explains that there can be some difficulties in understanding McCarthy's book, as he uses some Spanish which is not translated and conducts long conversations without quotation marks. In summation, the writer states that "All the Pretty Horses" is a hero's quest without a neat resolution, a book in which the strange light of mythic struggles shines through the quick-paced adventure.

From the Paper
"Make no mistake, this is no story of three young boys having a fun little adventure. This is the well-told tale of young men facing hard times in a strange land. As a result of Jimmy's situation, Lacey and John Grady end up in prison and almost lose their lives. The story seems like it couldn't be happening in our times. It's a modern western that feels like it took place in another era."

Tags:william, faulkner, john, grady, blevin, encantada

Abstract
The paper examines John Grady as the protagonist in "All the Pretty Horses", by Cormac McCarthy, and his code of loyalty.

From the Paper
"John Grady lives by a strict code of the West that is composed mainly of loyalty. It is a code that Grady grasps on to in his adventures despite the eventual fading of Old West-style romance and valor into the blare of modern times. Grady embodies this code in the following three relationships; as a father figure to Blevins, a friend to Rawlins and a lover to Alejandra. When Grady and Rawlins meet Blevins, Rawlins derides him although Blevins is not much..."

Tags:Cormac McCarthy, loyalty, character, analysis, code, West

Abstract
This paper examines how in Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" there are multiple factors that play into the constant conflict within the heart and mind of the central character John Grady, as well as many of the other secondary characters involved throughout the novel. It looks at how McCarthy uses the wilderness, and nature itself, as the central battleground within which John Grady is presented the opportunity to adapt and carve out his own "niche." It also discusses how McCarthy's contrasting of the natural world and the civilized world is ever-present throughout the novel.

From the Paper
"McCarthy opens his novel with John Grady thrust into the midst of a life changing scenario. Grady is dealing with the death of his grandfather, something that is unquestionably difficult for any male to deal with. When faced with the death of a grandparent, particularly a grandfather, one has come to a changing point within a family's structure. Now the patriarch that has most likely been a constant for most of the grandchildren's lives, has moved on and left a position needing to be filled. Most view their grandfather as having been more in touch with natural side of life, having probably lived a life of lesser means compared to those who followed. The same seems to hold true with John Grady. "

Tags:John, Grady, wilderness

Abstract
The analysis focuses on the deaths John Grady experiences in the novel and what their significance is to his maturation and worldviews as he journeys from innocence into manhood.

From the Paper
"The theme of death or passing is prevalent in Cormac McCarthy's novel "All The Pretty Horses", a Bildungsroman that chronicles the journey from innocence to experience of a sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole. We are told early in the novel; "John Grady is a man come to the end of something." The novel begins and ends with the deaths of John's Grandfather and a servant known as Abuela, grandmother respectively. The first death leads John on his adventure in Mexico as his mother..."

Tags:Texas, Mexico, farming, murder, existentialism, permanence, meaning

Abstract
A discussion on how meaning is enacted or re-created when a text is performed or adapted for a performance. A written comparison of a print text with the text's adaptation into film.

From the Paper
"Cormac McCarthy's novel "All the Pretty Horses" examines in fine detail the maturing of a sixteen-year-old boy, John Grady Cole, as he travels through the scorched landscape of Mexico. Grady's quest to uphold the romantic ideals of "the Wild West" is beautifully illustrated through McCarthy's attention to detail in his writing. When comparing the delicacy McCarthy has taken to articulate his ideas, with Bill Bob Thornton's film representation of the same title, one can only feel utmost disappointed."

Tags:film, movie, novel, literture

Abstract
The paper discusses issues of sex and race in American culture, using the film "Lone Star" and the short story "All the Pretty Horses." The paper also discusses the TV show "I Love Lucy" as an example.

From the Paper
"The idea has been advanced that contemporary film and literature including John Sayles' film "Lone Star" and Cormac McCarthy's novel "All the Pretty Horses" question racial constructions and offer new ways of representing the relationship between race and sex in American culture."

Tags:Lone Star, All the Pretty Horses, film, multicultural, culture

Abstract
Southwestern American literature forms a distinct genre with a sharp flavor that includes land, geography, attitudes and people. Four novels, Tony Hillerman's "Dance Hall of the Dead," Edward Abbey's "Fire on the Mountain", Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses," and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima" are discussed in this paper to present a partial menu of this exceptionally pungent mix.

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"Within the harsh realities of llanero life, Anayo shows us the spirit of the Chicano people who inhabit this bleak land. He gives us what Paul Beekman Taylor calls the wings of survival: "the spirit's soar to salvation (where) flight merges quests for art with the soul's inclination toward its source; that is, worldly with spiritual aspirations" (Taylor unpaged). Antonio's spirit is one with the spirit of the llano: "The summer came and burned me brown with its energy, and the llano and the river filled me with their beauty" (Anaya 76). His soul immerses itself in the mystery of Ultima's magic, in order, in the words of Taylor, to achieve "flight from chains of church, national identity, and parental ties" (unpaged), to learn to be himself and survive in this land."

Tags:Navajo, Vogelin, Leaphorn, ilanero

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses the western frontier concentrating on two novels on this issue, "The Crystal Frontier," by Carlos Fuentes, and "All the Pretty Horses," by Cormac McCarthy. The writer maintains that both Mexicans and Americans have an attachment to one another in the frontier because of their western culture, but racism quickly stops any sort of true assimilation. The writer discusses that there is some evidence of the border being more definite in terms of racism and opportunities in both novels, but it is only because the reader chooses to make it that way. The writer concludes that the United States and Mexico are attempting to communicate openly, but with the difference in economics, it seems impossible to become a true melting pot on the frontier.

From the Paper
"Carlos Fuentes' novel "The Crystal Frontier" describes what it means to be a Mexican in the border region. Through nine interlinking anecdotes, Fuentes describes the life of Don Leonardo Barroso, a rich factory owner in Campazas and the people who are affected by his influence. The characters include the rich factory owner, a Mexican doctor who owes his schooling to Don Leonardo, a group of female factory workers, Don Leonardo's senile, abandoned brother, and several Mexican laborers attempting to cross the Rio Grande hoping to find work in the United States. The novel chronicles the characters desire to improve their lives and how none of their struggles produce anything."

Tags:immigrants, melting, pot, expectations

Abstract
This essay describes and defines the genre that has come to be known as Southwestern American Literature. Four novels, Tony Hillerman's "Dance Hall of the Dead", Edward Abbey's "Fire on the Mountain", Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima" are analyzed to reveal how they contribute to this genre. Distinct landscapes and distinct characters inhabit these books, offering a panoply of cactus, desert, mountains, cowboys, cattlemen, Native Americans and Chicanos, all possessing a sense of alienation from the rest of the world. Southwestern literature, in summary, as this essay shows is about an appreciation of the wilderness and humans with a frontier mentality who are always seeking another open vista.

From the Paper
"Southwestern American literature forms a distinct genre with a sharp flavor that includes land and geography and attitudes and people. The landscape was there before a diversity of peoples sank their spiritual and physical roots into soil as varied as their voices. This literature is the empty land of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, of the four corners area, stretching even down through Texas into old Mexico. This land of cactus, desert, and mountains, and it's inhabitants, cowboys, Indians, and Chicanos, possess a sense of separation or alienation from the rest of the world. Southwestern literature is about an appreciation of the wilderness and humans with a frontier mentality who are always seeking another open vista. It is wide open spaces and emptiness, a barren but beautiful paradise, and the very real humans who live there. Offering what Rudolfo Anaya calls " the spirit of the place" (Dunaway ix-xvi), Southwestern literature is about character, men who are men, tough, stubborn humans who face hard facts with spirit. It is about cactus and desert and mountains and the folklore of native Americans, Chicano, and cowboys. Southwest Literature offers a picante taste that lingers on the inner tongue, a flavor of place and people, it includes both "surface" and "soul"(Dunaway ix), becoming a uniquely American "magical realism" (Dunaway 31)."

Tags:horses, Navajo, Way, Zu?i, Nashibitti, Vogelin