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| Original Title: | The Red Pony ISBN13 9780141962825 |
| Characters: | Jody Tiflin, Billy Buck, Carl Tiflin, Gitano |
John Steinbeck
Paperback | Pages: 95 pages Rating: 3.44 | 46258 Users | 2062 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Red Pony |
| Author | : | John Steinbeck |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 95 pages |
| Published | : | March 3rd 2011 by Puffin (first published 1933) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature. Young Adult. Animals |
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Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature and, particularly, the ways of man.Rating Out Of Books The Red Pony
Ratings: 3.44 From 46258 Users | 2062 ReviewsAssessment Out Of Books The Red Pony
Not As I Remembered It 66 Years Ago.I read this as a child, and I cried. It may have been the first real novel that I had ever read, as I was actually6 into reading comic books at that age.My brother was reading The Grapes of Wrath at that same time and was asking our mother if it were true about the dust bowl and depression and what the people went through. It was, she said.My father had given my older brother a collection of John Steinbeck books, so the reason we chose him to read. I grew toSteinbecks Got a Hold in Me(A Book Review of John Steinbecks The Red Pony)It all started on a lazy Sunday afternoon, a day I presume to be just like any other. However, what made it a little bit interesting and special, at best unforgettable, can be attributed to one simple man who goes by the name of John Steinbeck, whose unassuming, not over a hundred pages, little book tilted The Red Pony is the ticket all I ever need to beckon me back to that country called the classics, to which I, as of
Well.....this Steinbeck classic was not at all what I was expecting. It depicts the dark side of ranch life and the dreadful way animals are treated, sometimes out of necessity (but still hard to stomach) and other times out of down right meanness and cruelty.I did not care for father Carl or his young son Jody (at times) and felt sorry for horses, dogs, cats, birds, the old lonely wandering man Gitano coming home to die, and the treatment of Jody's aging grandfather.Of course, the purpose
If I could give this less stars I would. It's not about a Red Pony...it doesn't even SYMBOLIZE a red pony, nor does the actual red pony, who turns out to be insignificant, symbolize anything. It's just loooong Seven Years in Tibet-length descriptions of the clouds and landscape. I swear he spent five frikkin' pages on the rancher's moustache. Just awful.
I was feeling really conflicted about this novel until the last quarter, when I started to understood the scope of what Steinbeck was trying to say. On the surface, the story is simply a look into the life of a young boy growing up on a farm. Underneath however is the angst of an entire generation; a generation that felt they could never live up to the legendary exploits of their elders, who had ultimately fulfilled manifest destiny.And then comes another disquiet - what else was left for them
I don't think I could read a Steinbeck novel by the fire with a glass of wine. No, more like on the back porch wearing old jeans and a work shirt, because you feel like you may get your jeans dirty and your boots dusty, and maybe even a little blood on your shirt. That's the power of his writing, his characters and settings; he will draw you in, even if you don't want to be. Not much fun inside a Steinbeck novel, at least the ones I've read. That kind of power is on display here in The Red Pony.
John Steinbecks The Red Pony is a sweet book about a ten-year old boy named Jody who lives with his family on a ranch near the Gabilan mountain range in northern California. The book is novella length and has four chapters although each is a distinct story.Set in the period following the last wagon trains from the East, this is a homestead Western thats concerned with the familys daily routines. Mainly, though, its about the world seen through a boys eyes. There is nutrition for the soul as Jody
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