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Analysis Of All The Pretty Horses

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In the Novel “All The Pretty Horses” by author Cormac McCarthy, the book develops the ideas about how imagination affects an individual’s willingness to embrace or reject an uncertain future. The people in John Grady's life affect his future in certain ways, the decisions he makes based on the opinions of his peers, to the death of loved ones. John is a unique character in this book, he acts out on what he wants. He never speaks much but he acts a lot, and for john his actions speak louder than words. Such as riding away from San Angelo into mexico. He rode with his friend Rawlins and they do not encounter much trouble, this is when they are truly living the life of the cowboys. For John this shows that he's ready for what's going to come at him. Heading out into mexico with no plan shows us that John is ready to embrace any future that hits him. Whether it hits him like a train or rolls by like a tumbleweed. John Grady will be ready for what comes his way no matter what. Another person in his life who changed the ways John Grady thought was he sick father. His father was a second world war vet. Being in the war gave certain experiences and a certain mind set for his father. These rubbed off on John as he got taught “life lessons.” His father was a broken man. “Looks at the world with sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he’d seen of it elsewhere.” This quote is from the Narrator of the book, giving us a detailed description of

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