Thursday, May 17, 2012

Big Question for All The Pretty Horses

    My big question for, "All The Pretty Horses" is, should you be blamed for a friends mistake? In the book, two men Rawlins and Grady, are accompanied by a stranger they meet on their way to Mexico, Blevins. On the way to find work Blevins looses his horse and later finds it in a small town. The three men plan to take the horse back at night fall. They successfully get the horse but Blevins is separated from the other two men. Months go by and Rawlins and Grady are taken in the middle of the night and put in jail. Later they meet up with Blevins in a cell. As it turns out Blevins killed a guy and the police also thought he stole the horse. Blevins ends up getting shot and the other two are thrown in jail. While they're there the two men are forced to fight and try to survive. Grady is forced to kill a man who was sent to kill him.
    All these things boil back down to Blevins killing that man. That was his mistake, not John Grady's and Rawlins. They weren't part of the crime that Blevins committed. John Grady will never forget all the things that happened to him in those months and will be reminded of it everyday when he looks in the mirror. 

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