McCarthy has a "pattern of using characters who struggle against a brutal hostile world and All the Pretty Horses carries on the tradition- (Cormac 3). ... Through his descriptive imagery and use of Spanish, McCarthy in All the Pretty Horses efficiently unveils the dark side of society and of men in conflict to the innocence and freedom only found in nature. ... All the bilingual sections in All the Pretty Horses cause the reader to feel in the presence of the Mexican culture, and it's corrupt people. ... All these young people. They all returned full of ideas. ...

• Word Count: 2102
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Growing up without a mother, who died when he was young, and having a father who constantly beat him, Huck is all alone in an unfamiliar world. ... None is more obvious than when Huck, Jim, and their new conning duo, the King and the Duke, (Page 143) ...was pretty well down the State of Arkansas, we come in sight of a little one-horse town in a big bend, Twain introduces the stereotypical white trash? ... Huck describes the place and people as (Page 145) All the stores was along one street. They had white-domestic awnings in front, and the country people hitched their horses to the awning post...

• Word Count: 2137
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School