The Red Pony has many examples of when hard work doesnt always ensure success. Through out the four chapters of the novel Jody goes through many difficult times. He is helped through these times by Billy Buck-the cow hand, Carl Tifflin-his father, and his mother Ruth Tifflin. The book teaches people a good lesson on many different themes a few are, respect you elders, The chapter The Gift proves the point that hard work doesnt always ensure success. This chapter is filled with hard time for Jody. Jody received a red pony from his father; he bought the pony from a local auction.
The pony was too young to for Jody to ride, Jody was so anxious to ride it. Jody has to care for the pony everyday. He lets him out of the stable and into the coral everyday. One day Billy Buck tells Jody that he can let Gabilan out and leave him out while he goes to school. That day it rains and the pony was left out. Jody came home and the pony was very sick.
It gets worse over a few days. After a few days go by the pny gets worse and gets strangles. This leads to his death. In the Great Mountains the event that matches my theme is Gitano and his life. Gitano worked hard all his life, and has nothing to show for his success. Gitano is and old man who used to live on the property that Jody lives on. Gitano had an old adobe house there.
Gitano came to stay and die with the Tiffins since he used to live there, he calls it home. They let him stay the night and serve him dinner. Jody is very interested in the old man, and asks him many questions about the mountains. He leaves early in the morning, and no one in the family sees him leave. Jeff Taylor, the neighboring rancher, said he saw him on old Easter heading to the mountains. They never saw him again.
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Pony Express Before 1860 it was virtually impossible to get a letter or other form of correspondence from St. Joseph Missouri to Sacramento California in less than 20 days. 20 days seemed entirely too long for the west coast merchants and bankers to wait for documents from the east. So three men, William Russell, Alexander Majors and William Waddell created the Pony Express. The Pony Express ...
In the chapter The Promise, the main example of hard work not ensuring success is when they are trying to birth a baby colt. Mr. Tifflin offers Jody the opportunity to get another horse. He is very excited about this. The only thing is he has to do chores, and lots of them. He also has to take care of the horse. Mr.
Tifflin tells Jody to take Nellie to the neighboring ranch to be bread with the black stallion, sundog. They breed and Jody brings Nellie back to the ranch. Jody watches every day for signs of birth, Nellie starts getting bigger. Jody visits her every day to see how shes doing. The mare is finally ready for birth. Billy Buck helps the horse give birth. The baby colt is stuck and Billy Buck has to kill the horse to get the colt out.
This is an example of hard work not ensuring success. The final chapter in the novel is The Leader of the People. An example of hard work not ensuring success is Jodys grandfathers trip west. The grandfather came into town to visit his family. He always talks about his stories from the travel west. Carl doesnt like the stories and is sick of hearing them. Carl said something about it and the grandfather over heard and got upset.
The grandfathers trip west was a long and hard journey, yet he has nothing to show for his success. In Conclusion, I can relate to this theme. I agree that hard work doesnt always ensure success. When I played football my team and I did a lot of hard work to win but we never could. Our hard work never had success. Therefore, hard work doesnt always ensure success..
