Development of Character in Cormac McCarthys All the Pretty Horses Ess

Development of office in Cormac McCarthys All the Pretty HorsesIn a journey across the vast untamed country of Mexico, Cormac McCarthy introduces All the Pretty Horses, a deadly nightshade and profoundly moving tale of love, hate, disappointments, joy, and redemption. stern Grady sets out on horseback to Mexico with his best fri closing Lacey Rawlins in search of the cowboy lifestyle. His journey leaves John wiser but saddened, yet out of this heartbreak comes the resilience of a creation who has claimed his place in the world as a true cowboy. In his journey Johns character changes and develops throughout the novel to engage more of a personal relationship with the horses and Mother constitution. He changes from a young boy who knows nothing of the world except all the somewhat horses to an adolescent who is forced to acknowledge, that the real world is not so guileless like horses and finally to a young man who realizes that men ar very violent and unpredictable. Through out this journey of self-discovery, the one constant in his life is his bound with horses, a complex relationship that exist on many levels they transport him into Mexico and into his adolescent life, and also exist as a companion to take refuge in. His intimacy and interaction with horses and Mother spirit acts as a catalyst for his development of a man throughout this novel.McCarthys illustration of Johns character in the first gear chapter shows how girlish and naive he genuinely is. He has a hard time realizing that many people dont sh be the corresponding simple views as he does to own a feast in western Texas. Son, not everybody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dying and goin to heaven. His boyish outlook towards life portrays him as a naive... ...s actually sandwiched between the dickens horses as he is riding of into the old. He chooses the life of Mother Nature and the horses because life with them was much more simple a nd understanding than life in a society full of violent and unpredictable men. But, does he really choose Mother Nature over society? The last reprobate seems to contradict the first part of this paragraph. As a reader we are left with McCarthys last words, Passed and paled into the darkening land, the world to come. Maybe this is the end of John. As he is sandwiched in-between these two horses riding off into the sunset they are transporting him into the darkening land. Although, throughout the novel we see Johns character develop into a young man, who understands Mother Nature. McCarthy leaves us broken to what he is really thinking. McCarthy leaves that up to the reader to decide.