It is very easy to fool oneself into believing that the world is shaded in bright and happy colors, especially at a young age when one has not experienced the hardships of life. As kids the world seems like a field of possibilities, it is often only after traumatic experience that one learns that the world can and will be cruel, unfair, and unpleasant. It is when we move away from once ignorant beliefs that we grow as individuals and see life for what it really is, constant ups and downs. Cormac McCarthy is famous for his melancholy novels that more often than not present the world in darks and grey shades. All the Pretty Horses details the travels of a sixteen year old boy, John Grady Cole who after knowing the house he grew up in is about
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It is through this journey that John is able to re-kindle his spirit and discover his true resilience. This journey centers on his venture forms the complicated but familiar world into one of wonder and horror. On his journey he will face many ordeals that will transform him, giving him the gift of knowledge. This hero’s journey is one that closely captures a more realistic world view that is both ____ and _____
McCarthy begins John Grady Cole's hero’s journey by having him answer to his own inner call to adventure given it a more profound meaning. John is to soon be left without a home, while at the same time care for his deadbeat father therefore, John decides to escape his toxic environment alongside his best friend as he answers his own inner call to adventure. John knows that there are no longer any ties to his familiar world in Texas to keep him living on with his daily and dull routine. McCarthy describes this pivotal turning point in the novel as John and his father are riding through the country. McCarthy narrates “Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered… or worse did see it right at last” (27). …show more content…
John Grady is left without a stable home and, with no apparent future in Texas, he hopes to find fulfillment in Mexico. Along the way Rawlins and John meet an almost enigmatic persona named Jimmy Blevins, these three boys ride towards Rio Grande so that they may all begin their new destinies. McCormac describes this symbolic scene, “They crossed the river under a white quartermoon naked and pale and thin atop their horses” (45). In this almost biblical scene John is given a new and pure beginning. Crossing the water of Rio Grande serves as a symbolic baptism to cleanse his soul while giving him a new start. The bible mentions the baptism of Jesus as a right of passage into a rebirthed, a new promising life were past is forgotten. John has been given that same commencement, he has now crossed the “threshold” as Joseph Campbell claims in his hero’s journey, where he must face new conditions. Some of these conditions aid him in experiencing happiness while the others, tests, ordeals and unforgiving enemies slowly drive him towards his lowest point. This low point is set in prison after John and Rawlins are arrested in La Purisima after being convicted as accomplices to crimes committed by Jimmy Blevins. Here in prison John must kill to save his life, this battle is one that ends with a severely wounded John Grady Cole. McCarthy describes, “Perez’s man bent
It is through this journey that John is able to re-kindle his spirit and discover his true resilience. This journey centers on his venture forms the complicated but familiar world into one of wonder and horror. On his journey he will face many ordeals that will transform him, giving him the gift of knowledge. This hero’s journey is one that closely captures a more realistic world view that is both ____ and _____
McCarthy begins John Grady Cole's hero’s journey by having him answer to his own inner call to adventure given it a more profound meaning. John is to soon be left without a home, while at the same time care for his deadbeat father therefore, John decides to escape his toxic environment alongside his best friend as he answers his own inner call to adventure. John knows that there are no longer any ties to his familiar world in Texas to keep him living on with his daily and dull routine. McCarthy describes this pivotal turning point in the novel as John and his father are riding through the country. McCarthy narrates “Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered… or worse did see it right at last” (27). …show more content…
John Grady is left without a stable home and, with no apparent future in Texas, he hopes to find fulfillment in Mexico. Along the way Rawlins and John meet an almost enigmatic persona named Jimmy Blevins, these three boys ride towards Rio Grande so that they may all begin their new destinies. McCormac describes this symbolic scene, “They crossed the river under a white quartermoon naked and pale and thin atop their horses” (45). In this almost biblical scene John is given a new and pure beginning. Crossing the water of Rio Grande serves as a symbolic baptism to cleanse his soul while giving him a new start. The bible mentions the baptism of Jesus as a right of passage into a rebirthed, a new promising life were past is forgotten. John has been given that same commencement, he has now crossed the “threshold” as Joseph Campbell claims in his hero’s journey, where he must face new conditions. Some of these conditions aid him in experiencing happiness while the others, tests, ordeals and unforgiving enemies slowly drive him towards his lowest point. This low point is set in prison after John and Rawlins are arrested in La Purisima after being convicted as accomplices to crimes committed by Jimmy Blevins. Here in prison John must kill to save his life, this battle is one that ends with a severely wounded John Grady Cole. McCarthy describes, “Perez’s man bent