All the Pretty Horses
"All the pretty horses" is an excellent piece of writing by Comic McCarthy. The main theme of the novel is the desire for freedom. The term freedom is used almost sarcastically as the author explores the essence of the freedom man desires only to find that it is actually a paradoxical term. On the one hand, we want freedom, which would allow us to do anything as we like but on the other, the author discovers that there is no real freedom without laws. The freedom we dream of is free from the shackles of law but the freedom that man can truly cherish and enjoy prospers within the confines of law. The young protagonist of the novel, Grady, is a representative of average American youth. He is a man who dreams of boundless freedom and since he can no longer enjoy that kind of freedom on the ranch his family had in America, he decides to run away to Mexico. For a brief time in this country, it looks as if Grady has found everything that he had ever wanted. He starts working on a splendid ranch with a large number of pretty horses and also falls in love with the beautiful daughter of his employer, a girl called Alejandra. These dreams are however very short-lived and Grady soon realizes that accountability and responsib
As he starts his journey to the north, he makes some wise observations:"The Indians stood watching him. Without laws, the world was no better than a jungle. His time in prison teaches him that without clear laws, there could be no freedom and that without laws, evil was always looming large as he observes: "Evil is a true thing . He also discovers the real of freedom and learns that the indifferent world of the Indians was not the world for him. They had no curiosity about him at all. In a lawless society, everything appears even more preordained than it would otherwise. It lacks a sense of direction and that is what Grady's life becomes when there is no legal structure in which to exercise one's freedom. He also learns much to his chagrin that without laws and rules, life is a rudderless boat that allows no exercise of free will. They know little about law and justice as in exists in the civilized world. Grady and Rawlins are sent to jail only for Grady's involvement with Alejandra.
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