The Red Pony By John Stienbeck
The book I chose for my book report is The Red Pony by John Stienbeck. It is set on a farm and ranch in southern California in Monterey County. Four people live on the farm. They live on it and raise horses, crops, pigs, chickens, and lots of other animals and plants for food.
Jody Tiffin and his family live on the farm with a ranch hand named Billy Buck. He helps Jody’s father, Carl Tiffin, around doing different jobs around the farm. Jody’s mom, Mrs. Tiffin, cooks and cleans the house and always has meals ready for them when they come inside the house after a hard day’s work. Jody does different chores around the house, like filling the wood box or feeding the chickens, and he also goes to school in the morning.
The main problem or conflict in the story starts when one day Jody’s father takes him to a location on the farm and shows him a horse that he has purchased from a circus. It is a pony and when Jody sees it, he asks if it is his and when his father says yes, Jody vows to keep it healthy and clean and well-fed and teach it tricks. One day when Jody goes to school, Billy Buck says that it looks like it may rain and when Jody asks him if he is going to put it in the stall and …show more content…
“’But,’ the boy insisted, ‘but in between? No one knows?’” (Steinbeck, 38) This quote relates to the theme that you can’t always have or get what you want because Jody asked his father, wanting an answer to his question, but his father, never having been in or around the mountains, didn’t know the answer to his question. Sometimes when questions are asked to people, they do not know the answer. This is what happened with Jody’s question to his father. He wanted an answer to his question, but since his father did not know the answer, he did not get one, even though he wanted an answer to his
Jody Tiffin and his family live on the farm with a ranch hand named Billy Buck. He helps Jody’s father, Carl Tiffin, around doing different jobs around the farm. Jody’s mom, Mrs. Tiffin, cooks and cleans the house and always has meals ready for them when they come inside the house after a hard day’s work. Jody does different chores around the house, like filling the wood box or feeding the chickens, and he also goes to school in the morning.
The main problem or conflict in the story starts when one day Jody’s father takes him to a location on the farm and shows him a horse that he has purchased from a circus. It is a pony and when Jody sees it, he asks if it is his and when his father says yes, Jody vows to keep it healthy and clean and well-fed and teach it tricks. One day when Jody goes to school, Billy Buck says that it looks like it may rain and when Jody asks him if he is going to put it in the stall and …show more content…
“’But,’ the boy insisted, ‘but in between? No one knows?’” (Steinbeck, 38) This quote relates to the theme that you can’t always have or get what you want because Jody asked his father, wanting an answer to his question, but his father, never having been in or around the mountains, didn’t know the answer to his question. Sometimes when questions are asked to people, they do not know the answer. This is what happened with Jody’s question to his father. He wanted an answer to his question, but since his father did not know the answer, he did not get one, even though he wanted an answer to his