The Horses in ATPH.

I used to wonder about the book's title. However, after this past reading, I've begun to understand the meaning of it. Horses are all over the place! Rawlins and John Grady find work at the Hacienda de Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion (God that's a mouthfull) which literally means "Ranch of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception" (Irony, maybe?). At the ranch there are sixteen horses. After showing Don Hector his gift with horses, John Grady helps Hector breed a magnificent stallion. Lastly, the Rawlins and Grady are out in the mountains roping horses when they are found by the greyhounds.


Words cannot describe how happy I was when I saw Blevins return to the story. I find it extremely amusing that he had to return to Encantada to retrieve his gun; regaining his horse wasn't good enough for him. It's purely by coincidence that the three meet again in jail. (Well actually, I was kind of expecting this from a novel, but still.) I see Blevins as a sort of enigmatic character. I can't seem to figure him out. On one hand, he's an oversensitive boy scared of lightning, and on the other, he's a daring stuntsman and brilliant shooter who will fight and kill for anything that is rightfully his. Maybe this doubt will clear up later in the novel.


OHMYGOD I TAKE THAT BACK. What is this???!!!!??? That stupid captain killed Blevins? What's wrong with him?? Or rather, what's wrong with McCarthy? What was the point of Blevins in the novel anyway? I mean what did he do? I thought he was going to be a character that appeared in the beginning of the novel and reappeared later, making a significant impact on the plot. But I guess not!!! This is so disheartening.


~xE_Ax