All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
For Americans, this novel is the antithesis story of "the other." John Grady and Rawlins embark on a journey of passage from Texas to Mexico in the late 1940s. Insteac of going north, the protagonists go south in search of their "home." As late teens, they are on a quest...and they find a world beyond anything they could have imagined. One of McCarthy's most accessible novels, Horses examines an America trying to come to terms with itself after World War II. The frontier is dead; all land is fenced in. The horses may be "pretty," but they are not wild any longer. The movie "All the Pretty Horses," directed by Billy Bob Thornton, is a wonderful resource for students to explore issues of interpretation of literary works in more than one medium. For high school/college classrooms. By Natosi, high school/college English instructor.
For Americans, this novel is the antithesis story of "the other." John Grady and Rawlins embark on a journey of passage from Texas to Mexico in the late 1940s. Insteac of going north, the protagonists go south in search of their "home." As late teens, they are on a quest...and they find a world beyond anything they could have imagined. One of McCarthy's most accessible novels, Horses examines an America trying to come to terms with itself after World War II. The frontier is dead; all land is fenced in. The horses may be "pretty," but they are not wild any longer. The movie "All the Pretty Horses," directed by Billy Bob Thornton, is a wonderful resource for students to explore issues of interpretation of literary works in more than one medium. For high school/college classrooms. By Natosi, high school/college English instructor.
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