ALL THE PRETTY HORSES

CORMAC MCCARTHY

SUMMARY

SETTING

CHARACTERS

• John Grady Cole
• Lacey Rawlins
• Jimmy Blevins
• Alejandra Rocha
• Don Hector & Alfonsa

POINT OF VIEW

PLOT & STRUCTURE

THEME

• Coming of Age
• Friendship
• Gender

Symbolism

• Horses
• Religion
• Water

LITERARY DEVICES

IMAGERY
“The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces...Shrouded in the back thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world.” –pg. 67

IMAGERY
“The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces...Shrouded in the back thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world.” –pg. 67

LITERARY MERIT

Ap Prompt 2011
Choose a character from a novel or play who responds in some significant way to justice or injustice. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the character’s understanding of justice, the degree to which the character’s search for justice is successful, and the significance of this search for the work as a whole.

Ap Prompt 2013
A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, recounts the psychological or moral development of its protagonist from youth to maturity, when this character recognizes his or her place in the world. Select a single pivotal moment in the psychological or moral development of the protagonist of a bildungsroman. Then write a well-organized essay that analyzes how that single moment shapes the meaning of the work as a whole.