Essays on All the Pretty Horses

Dreams and the Hero’s Journey The book All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy follows the boy, John Grady, throughout his travels in Mexico. The story is a bildungsroman, or a story about a hero who matures with the experiences gained during the adventure to…

What happens when you venture into the wild west with your greatest pal by your side? Probably nothing you expected! In Cormac McCarthy’s award winning novel, All The Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole, sixteen, sets off on an adventure with his friend Rawlins and comes…

The characters of Huckleberry Finn and John Brady Cole had many similarities and many differences throughout the book. The two characters’ motivations for leaving home were very different but had some similarities. Huckleberry Finn and John Brady Coles family situation was similar but there were…

All The Pretty Horses Chronologically speaking, All The Pretty Horses is quite an interesting book. It was published in 1992, is set in 1949, and often seems like it is set in the 1800s. Despite being set in the relatively modern timeframe of the late…