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Cormac Mccarthy All The Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy gives his story All the Pretty Horses an unique organization. The book only has four chapters within, yet each chapter is lengthy. There are also very few flashbacks in this story. This flashback was needed, however, to show how things did not change after John Grady Cole’s grandfather died. “On the wall opposite above the sideboard was an oilpainting of horses. . . . his grandfather looked up from his plate at the painting,” shows the painting being there while his grandfather was alive and is stirs up John Grady’s memory of it. There was also one dream sequence in the novel. “That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain . . . they ran in that resonance which is the world itself and which cannot be spoken but only praised,” implies how the horses are wild and …show more content…
At this part of the story, John Grady Cole was arrested and being kept captive. He wants to have the freedom to leave and run like the wild horses. The events in All the Pretty Horses are organized into specific chapter. The first chapter feature John Grady and Rawlins’ trip to Mexico and the people they met there. The chapter ends and a new chapter begins when they reach the ranch. The second chapter focuses on the characters lives at the ranch and the affair between John Grady and Alejandra. Rawlins and John Grady are arrested and the third

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