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The Red Pony. Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1933. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
- The Gift
- The Great Mountains
- The Promise
- The Leader of The People
This story describes Carl Tiflin's family and ranch, which will be the setting of all four stories. Jody is Carl's son. Another central character is Billy Buck, the ranch's single employed hand. While Carl is a stern, unemotional man, Billy is warmer, and spends a lot of time teaching Jody how to take care of horses. The ranch includes several hors...
Jody is bored. He looks with longing at the great mountains, wishing he could explore them. Suddenly, an old Mexican man named Gitano appears, claiming he was born on the ranch. Gitano requests to stay on the farm until he dies. Carl Tiflin refuses, although he does allow him to stay the night. That night, Jody secretly visits Gitano. He is polishi...
Billy Buck and Carl Tiflin decide Jody should raise a colt from birth. Jody is sent with Nellie, a mare, to have her bred. The breeding is expensive; Jody works extra hard at his chores to repay his father, but eventually he grows tired of waiting. Also, he is wary that Billy will let something go wrong, as happened with Gabilan. This hurts Billy's...
The Tiflins' receive a letter from Jody's maternal grandfather, saying that he is coming to visit. Jody's father is upset, and argues with his wife, complaining that the grandfather simply repeats his stories about crossing the Great Plains as the head of a wagon train. Jody goes down the road to meet his grandfather. That night, his grandfather be...
Full Book Analysis. 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.
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Chapter 4 Summary. On a Saturday afternoon in March, Billy Buck is raking together the last of the old hay. Jody comes out of the house eating a piece of buttered bread. He joins Billy at the remains of the haystack.
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