![]() that if a person understood the soul of a horse then he would understand all the horses that ever were" (p. On the hacienda an old man named Luis tells the boys that "the horse shares a common soul and its separate life only forms it out of all horses and makes it mortal. ![]() What attributes does McCarthy seem to value in his characters, and how can you tell he does so? Do these traits always serve them well, or are the boys in All the Pretty Horses victims of their own virtues?ĥ. How does the author establish John Grady's character? How has he changed by the novel's end? At what points in the book do we see him change?Ĥ. What other events in this novel occur more than once? How does McCarthy use repetition as a structuring device?ģ. ![]() All the Pretty Horses opens with one death-that of John Grady'sgrandfather-and ends with the death of the family servant called Abuela, "grandmother." (At the novel's end, John Grady also learns that his father has died.) How do these deaths impel the novel's plot? What larger meanings do they suggest?Ģ. ![]()
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