Lessons Learned In John Steinbeck's The Red Pony

The ideas and different lessons learned in John Steinbeck’s stories are very real, as they make you feel a part of the deep story. John Ernst Steinbeck Jr., was born February 27, 1962, in Salinas, California, as he grew up there as well. The Red Pony is a book about a boy named Jody who gets a very special horse named Gabilan. The horse sadly dies from a bad cold as Jody recovers and later finds out new mysteries about his town. The author’s style of writing explains a lot as the author writes very descriptive, as well as including a significant amount of dialogue and foreshadowing of special references. John Steinbeck writes in a way that helps explain more by writing much more descriptive. “Doubletree Mutt put his stupid nose in the trap and got it smacked and shrieked with agony and limped away with blood on his nostrils”(38). This part of the Red Pony shows how descriptive Steinbeck is when he describes …show more content…
In this story, one scene shows how Kino tries to play God by blocking a group of ants, but later he gets punished for his evil greed and is later played with by God. “He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path…. He is no longer like God”(8). This quote from the book refers to God as Kino tries to play God, but can’t stop nature making him no longer like God. In the Red Pony, there are many parts that refer to special things that can later foreshadow things in the future of the story such as the mysterious mountains and Gitano. “The mystery of the mountains makes them terrible and great to Jody, even in contrast to the gentle Gabilan Hills”(32). This shows the mystery of the mountains as Gitano, from the mountains is another mystery. This explains the secret references and scenes of foreshadowing in John Steinbeck’s