"The ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted horses and the riders of that lost nation came down out of the north. . .When the wind was wild in the north you could hear them, the horses and the horses' hooves that were shod...

The Horses of All the Pretty Horses In his novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy presents us with a young man's journey through the regions of the unknown into adulthood. This novel, at once a western, a coming of age story, and a picturesque adventure, gives the story of John Grady...

It was probably the dumbest thing she had ever thought in her life and the very dumbest thing she had ever said. There they were, coming down the escalator at the airport in Dublin, Ireland, and she had to blurt out, "Wow! All these people look Irish." Well, duh. No wonder he had left ...

Only a Girl Alice Munro's short story, "Boys and Girls," explores the different roles of men and women in society through a young girl's discovery of what it means to be a girl. A close examination of the elements of a short story as they are used in "Boys and Girls" helps us to underst...

Beryl Markham lead a remarkable life; from the warm and wild farm in Njoro to the wide open skies over Nairobi, Beru, as most natives said her name of Laweit as Arab Maina called her established grand relationships with not only many of the people she came in contact with, but she also have some sp...

JINN From the looks of the moon I could judge it was past midnight. The sky was very dark and the weather was very windy. The rustling of trees constantly caught my attention as I rode by on my horse. The rhythmic thumps of the hoofs beat straight into my mind causing a hypnotic trance, and yet ...

What does it mean to be lucky? Or, what does it mean to be successful? How does money corrupt those terms? The beginning of "The Rocking Horse Winner" gives the reader a sense of fantasy. As a general rule, children love fairy tales. We grow up reading stories like Little Red Riding Hood or watching...