All The Pretty Horses Summary

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All The Pretty Horses begins with the funeral of John Grady’s grandfather. John Grady Cole is sixteen years old and has lived on his grandfather’s ranch in San Angelo for his entire life. Since his grandfather past away, the ranch now belongs to John Grady’s mother. His mother has left the family previously some time and is an aspiring actress in San Antonio. John Grady’s parents no longer talk to each other. After the funeral, John Grady meets his father and goes to a café to talk. John Grady and his father talk about his mother and the ranch. The father feels he has failed his son. He gives John Grady a new saddle. Back at the ranch, John Grady talks with his mother and tries to persuade her to keep the ranch and give the ranch to him so he could maintain it.…show more content…
John Grady rides with his father for the last time, makes peace with an ex girlfriend, and then rides away from San Angelo to Mexico with his friend. After being on the road for several days, John Grady and Rawlins realize that someone is following them. The follower turns out to be a boy who calls himself Jimmy Blevins and rides a very valuable horse. Rawlins and John Grady question him and the boy claims that he is not being followed and not riding a stolen horse. John Grady and Rawlins have a bad feeling about the boy and tell Blevins not to follow them. They encounter Blevins again and he manages to convince John Grady and Rawlins to let him accompany. They ride in to Reforma and are invited to have dinner and spend the night at a house of a townsman. Blevins embarrasses himself, leaves the table and refuses to come back to into the house. Blevins meets the others the next day and rejoins them. They continue with their journey and stop to purchase liquor from traders. Blevins gets intoxicated, freaks out when a lightning storm appears and dashes off on his

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