Development of Character in Cormac McCarthys All the Pretty Horses Ess

Development of Character in Cormac McCarthys All the Pretty HorsesIn a journey across the ample untamed country of Mexico, Cormac McCarthy introduces All the Pretty Horses, a bittersweet and profoundly moving tale of love, hate, disappointments, joy, and redemption. John Grady sets out on horseback to Mexico with his best athletic supporter Lacey Rawlins in search of the cowboy conductstyle. His journey leaves John wiser but saddened, yet out of this heartbreak comes the resilience of a man who has claimed his place in the human race as a true cowboy. In his journey Johns use changes and develops throughout the novel to have more of a personal descent with the horses and Mother Nature. He changes from a young boy who knows nothing of the world except all the pretty horses to an adolescent who is forced to acknowledge, that the real world is not so simple like horses and finally to a young man who realizes that men are very violent and unpredictable. Throughout this journey of s elf-discovery, the one unvarying in his life is his bound with horses, a complex relationship that exist on umteen levels they transport him into Mexico and into his adolescent life, and also exist as a companion to take refuge in. His intimacy and interaction with horses and Mother Nature acts as a catalyst for his development of a man throughout this novel.McCarthys illustration of Johns character in the first chapter shows how boyish and naive he really is. He has a hard time realizing that many people dont share the same simple views as he does to own a ranch in western Texas. Son, not everybody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dying and goin to heaven. His boyish outlook towards life portrays him as a naive... ...s actually sandwiched between the two horses as he is riding of into the sunset. He chooses the life of Mother Nature and the horses because life with them was much more simple and intelligence than life in a society full of violent and unpredictable men. But, does he really choose Mother Nature over society? The closingure sentence seems to contradict the first part of this paragraph. As a reader we are left with McCarthys last words, Passed and paled into the darkening land, the world to come. Maybe this is the end of John. As he is sandwiched in-between these two horses riding off into the sunset they are transporting him into the darkening land. Although, throughout the novel we see Johns character develop into a young man, who understands Mother Nature. McCarthy leaves us bewildered to what he is really thinking. McCarthy leaves that up to the reader to decide.