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Title: The Red Pony (Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck, John D. Seelye ISBN: 0-14-018739-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.92 (140 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Steinbeck is a master American novelist
Comment: I believe you just don't like to read if you don't enjoy Steinbeck's novels. He is the best author I have ever read and this book does nothing to dimish that accolade. Life in those times, on a farm, kid growing up, learning life/death, how to take care of animals is all addressed in this novel as themes. I think this book should be read by all junior high school students. Students in the city will probably have a hard time relating but that is the best thing in a novel where it will take you places and times that you don't normally get an experience in.
Rating: 1
Summary: sucks
Comment: SUCKS BIG BANANAS.... the book should never be read again, it has no poit to it , the book was poorley writen and everyone should burn the book if thay have a copy.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Red Pony
Comment: The Red Pony is a famous book written by John Steinbeck. It contains four events in a ten-year-old boy¡¦s childhood. Jody is a child who lives on a farm with his parents and a horse expert, Billy Buck, who was hired by the family. One morning before Jody had to go to school; his father and Billy Buck brought him to a box stall in a barn, and was given the red pony. It would influence his life thereafter.
Steinbeck did a remarkable job catching the readers¡¦ attention. The Red Pony was written well with clear, lively, and expressive language. Throughout the book, detailed information and expressive descriptions of the environment helped me imagine the setting before my eyes while I was reading it. The vividly described actions of Jody towards the red pony made me feel that the red pony was the most significant thing in his life at the moment. Steinbeck did not need to use hard words to convey what he was trying to say; instead, the easier and more colloquial words portrayed his ideas perfectly.
Although the language of the story was used to make the readers thoroughly understand it, the title and the story itself didn¡¦t really match. The first chapter talked about the relationship between the red pony and Jody, and the third chapter was about Jody and the mare that was bearing a colt. The colt would later on become Jody¡¦s colt. However, the second and fourth chapter focused on a stranger that came to the family and Jody¡¦s grandfather¡¦s visit, which are unrelated to the title, The Red Pony. Therefore, the theme, the red pony, only relates to the promise of the new colt as the pony had died in the first chapter.
Although The Red Pony is short, it was written concisely and clearly. The author did an excellent job of showing a variety of feelings in each character without the need for them to express it themselves. Steinbeck¡¦s descriptions really draw the reader inside the story.
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Title: The Pearl by John Steinbeck ISBN: 014017737X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 06 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140177396 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140042407 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140177388 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter ISBN: 0449704378 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 31 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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