Red Pony
The Red Pony has many examples of when hard work doesn’t always ensure success. Through out the four chapters of the novel Jody goes through many difficult times. He is helped through these times by Billy Buck-the cow hand, Carl Tifflin-his father, and his mother Ruth Tifflin. The book teaches people a good lesson on many different themes a few are, respect you elders,
The chapter “The Gift” proves the point that hard work doesn’t always ensure success.
This chapter is filled with hard time for Jody. Jody received a red pony from his father; he bought the pony from a local auction. The pony was too young to for Jody to ride, Jody was so anxious to ride it. Jody has to care for the pony everyday. He lets him out of the stable and into the coral everyday. One day Billy Buck tells Jody that he can let Gabilan out and leave him out while he goes to school. That day it rains and the pony was left out. Jody came home and the pony was very sick. It gets worse over a few days. After a few days go by the pny gets worse and gets strangles. This leads to his death.
In the “Great Mountains” the event that matches my theme is Gitano and his life. Gitano worked hard all his life, and has nothing to show for his success. Gitano is and old man who used to live on the property that Jody lives on. Gitano had an old adobe house there. Gitano came to stay and die with the Tiffin’s since he used to live there, he calls it home. They let him stay the night and serve him dinner. Jody is very interested in the old man, and asks him many questions about the mountains. He leaves early in the morning, and no one in the family sees him leave. Jeff Taylor, the neighboring rancher, said he saw him on old Easter heading to the mountains. They never saw him again.
In the chapter “The Promise”, the main example of hard work not ensuring success is when they are trying to birth a baby colt. Mr. Tifflin offers Jody the opportunity to get another horse. He is very excited about this. The only thing is he has to do chores, and lots of them. He also has to take care of the horse.
The theme of chapter seven is about empathy. Ponyboy starts to realize that not everyone thinks the same, and that people are different. For example, on page 101, the reporters asked a few questions to Ponyboy that said, “What would you do right now if you could do anything you wanted?” Ponyboy replied “ Take a bath.” Right
Ponyboy was a bad kid, he fought against Socs and he even smoked a weed, which is a cigarette. Later on he got into worse trouble and had to hide. He wanted to change and be a different person. While he hid he was scared and frightened and was beginning to think of how he was doing in life, and his thoughts were not very well. After the church incident, he began to change a little.
Eric Dickerson was once the most sought after player coming out of high school in the late 1970’s. Along with Craig James another blue chip recruit they came together at SMU in 1979. How two of the best recruits in the nation came together is just the beginning of “Pony Excess”. SMU was hailed as the best team that money could buy. The film covers the late seventies and early 80’s which was all about the cheating and probation and culminates in 2012 when SMU finally made it back to a bowl game.
In chapter two Ponyboy and Johnny go with Dally to the drive in movies where they meet two socs girls. One of the girl’s name is Cherry Valance the other is Marica. When Dally started trying to talk and embarrass them Cherry told Dally,”It’s a shame you can’t ride bull half as good as you can talk.” But Dally ignored that remark and went to get some coke. When he was gone Cherry and Ponyboy started to talk and they realized that they both aren 't that bad. Then Two-Bit comes back to annouce that Dally has slashed Tim Shepard’s tires and says there is going to be a fight. Some time passes and Cherry decides she wants to get popcorn and Ponyboy goes with her, Ponyboy telling Cherry the story of wh...
The story opens with a crisis in their relationship. The narrator reads in the newspaper that Sonny has been taken up in a drug raid. He learns that Sonny is addicted to heroin “horse,” and that he will be sent to a treatment facility to be "cured." Unable to believe that his once gentle and quiet brother could have so abused himself:
His parents died when he was young. He was nurtured by his older brothers. Pony has to struggle at the bottom of the social ladder. Like the people around him, he has to fight, steal and scare little kids. However, Pony remained a pure heart, a golden heart. He only fights when he has to defend himself. He kept his heart of sympathy, understanding of others and think for the others. Like in when the church was burned, he understands the situation of the teacher and children. So he risked his life to safe the kids. The most straight forward example and conclusion of Pony’s good heart is the word of Johnny, “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold…” Moreover, Ponyboy is a thinker. He can think for the opposite side of his gang, the Socs. Although the Socs almost drowned him, he can still understand the Socs and didn’t be blinded by the hate. He in the chaos and impulsive world can see through the surface of the conflict and see the core of the world that people are the same. That is really amazing and Ponyboy does have the board mind of a hero.
Before 1860 it was virtually impossible to get a letter or other form of correspondence from St. Joseph Missouri to Sacramento California in less than 20 days. 20 days seemed entirely too long for the west coast merchants and bankers to wait for documents from the east. So three men, William Russell, Alexander Majors and William Waddell created the Pony Express. The Pony Express ensured fast and safe delivery of the mail.
The book is a compilation of four stories and is more described as a Bildungsroman, a book that narrates the learning process of a boy advancing into adulthood. Jody Tiflin, the eleven year old boy in the story learns about the harsh lessons of life. The setting of the story takes place on the Tiflin’s family ranch in Salinas Valley, where Jody lives with his father, Carl, his mother Ruth and the hired help a middle-aged cowboy Billy Buck, Who was Jody’s hero is now depreciated in Jody’s eyes in “The Gift” when the horse, Gabilan he adores so much and carelessly left outside in the rainstorm is drenched from the rain and fell ill. The family help, promised Jody that the weather will be fair for him to take Galiban out to ride. The pony symbolizes Jody’s growing maturity and his evolving knowledge of the natural world. In the second section of the book titled “The Great Mountains” depicts Jody coming face to face with Galiban’s death. Also there is an ailing old Chicano named Gitano, who was born ion the ranch before Jody’s grandfather bought the ranch, walks into the ranch and begs to stay on the ranch till he dies but Jody’s father Carl Tiflin refuses and the next day, Gitano left ¬– but not before he stole an old rapier that has been in the Tiflin family for generations and once again Jody learns a complex harsh reality of adult
And then couple of guys start to bother a helpless mule which belongs to Matt Bonner . But then Janie mutters her disapproval of their cruelty toward the mule. But Jody is standing nearby and hears her complaint. So he buys the mule for five dollars so that the poor beast can rest in peace for once in his life to “rescue” him. In the book everyone considers Jody’s freedom of the mule very heroic comparing it to when Abraham Lincoln’s made emancipation to free northern slaves. Janie can also relate with the mule. Just like the Mule which remains stubborn but at the sametime is independent even though their master’s effort to beat them down is
George Orwell explores the positives and negatives of hard work and dedication in his book, “Animal Farm.” The hardest working character in this book, none other than Boxer, has become weaker and weaker from hard work and dedication, and without thinking, he fails to realize he needs to stop working. . Hard workers without a plan were not always meant to succeed. They might have succeeded in their younger years, but once you become of the older age, you become not able to do the things you would have done years back. Hard workers like Boxer soon die due to overwork and over the top dedication rather than retiring from all the hardships that could be handled by the other animals on the farm. Through “I will work harder,” Orwell suggests hard work and dedication, without intelligence, leads to failure.
P-51D Mustangs zooming by and all you can see it the bright red tails of the aircraft. As we all know by now that the Tuskegee Airmen were one of the best if not the best fighter squadron of WWII. I wanted to write some about aviation that interested me and affected the outlook on minorities in aviation. First on wanted to talk about how this whole outfit started also what it took for them to become the red tail as we all know today. Also what other planes the flew during the war and some off the big named pilot that came for the Tuskegee airmen and what they did after the war.
“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's short story “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. In his fairy tale Perrault prevents girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author elaborates a slightly revisited plot without altering the moral: young girls should beware of men; especially when they seem innocent.
“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's fairy tale “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. Perrault provided a moral to his fairy tales, the one from this one is to prevent girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author advances a revisited but still effective moral: beware of wolfs even though they seem innocent.
...utside world, where you must learn to hate and neglect. Johnny enjoys reading, as he really enjoys reading “Gone with the wind.” Dally meanwhile, is described as not having the “shade of difference that separates a Greaser from a hood” on page fourteen. Dally is rough while Johnny is soft. Dally reflects hatred while Johnny reflects sensitivity. Therefore, when Dally and Johnny both die, Ponyboy feels like he has lost himself, because two major people who had such a big influence on him has left him.
Throughout literature, authors employ a variety of strategies to highlight the central message being conveyed to the audience. Analyzing pieces of literature through the gender critics lens accentuates what the author believes to be masculine or feminine and that society and culture determines the gender responsibility of an individual. In the classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, the gender strategies appear through the typical fragile women of the mother and the grandmother, the heartless and clever male wolf, and the naïve and vulnerable girl as little red riding hood.