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5 pages. Examines the symbolism and treatment of death as it appears in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses. This paper also contains contextual information such as the treatment of death by the Comanche Indians and the Mexicans of that era. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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also contains contextual information such as the treatment of death by the Comanche Indians and the Mexicans of that era. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES Cormac McCarthys novel All the
Pretty Horses seems to focus on fatality and death. Indeed, the author uses this subject matter as a focus in all of his works. This particular book not
only focuses on death but the story itself could be said to thrive on it; it is what makes the book, and the deaths within are the glue that keeps
the plot together. It is to McCarthys credit that he is able to piece together a work of this capacity that is held together by death. In
the very beginning the reader discovers that John Grady Cole at sixteen years of age leaves his home upon the death of his grandfather. It is a death that
causes the novel to begin, and it is this single death that begins John Coles adventures with his friend Lacey Rawlins. They then take up with a third
youth, Jimmy Blevins and the three head towards Mexico. It is during this trek and upon their arrival that the boys begin to change; they are no longer the
fresh-faced innocent youths of before, but they are beginning to see life as a struggle. John Cole learned the first of these lessons when his grandfather died; but when
the boys find themselves in Mexico where the rules are seemingly all different, they learn that, in an irony all its own, that death is a way of life.
Author McCarthy doesnt spare any words in engaging in the reader a grotesquely visual description of the death of horses and men in his novel. It is the
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