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The Red Pony is a novella by John Steinbeck about a boy named Jody and his experiences on his father's ranch in California. The book consists of four stories that explore themes of death, maturity, and the bond between humans and animals.
The Red Pony, book of four related stories by John Steinbeck, published in 1937 and expanded in 1945. The stories chronicle a young boy’s maturation. In “The Gift,” the best-known story, young Jody Tiflin is given a red pony by his rancher father. Under ranch hand Billy Buck’s guidance, Jody learns.
Learn about the inspiration, themes, and adaptation of Steinbeck's short story collection The Red Pony, written from a child's perspective. The stories follow Jody's transformation from innocence to maturity on a ranch in California.
A novella about a boy and his horse on a California ranch, with themes of fate, injustice and growing up. Read ratings, reviews and summaries from Goodreads users and other readers.
A short summary of John Steinbeck's The Red Pony. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Red Pony.
The four stories of The Red Pony center on Jody. In each story, Jody learns an important moral lesson. In the first, he learns that even the incredibly experienced Billy Buck can be wrong, and that something as exciting and promising as a new horse can end in tragedy.
Set in the valley just outside of Salinas, California between the Santa Lucia and the Gabilan Mountains, John Steinbeck's The Red Pony is a collection of four short stories: The Gift, The Great Mountains, The Promise, and The Leader of the People.
