Mccarthy Punctuation In All The Pretty Horses

Furthermore, McCarthy creates a distinct, minimalistic style within his works that successfully allows the reader to become absorbed into the piece. Moreover, McCarthy is known for rarely using punctuation such as quotations, apostrophes, colons, and semicolons which not only allows his books to be less cluttered, but also facilitates in creating the mood. In The Road and All the Pretty Horses, the conversations are often dull and use colloquialism let the conversations between the characters more realistic to each of the arduous situations the characters are in. For instance, the boy and the man have seen it all, dealing with cannibals and the harsh, desolate environment, so it is shown within their conversations that they seem to be broken people like in this

said John Grady. Washed away. Your horse is gone. I know it. I done been out to the road once. What do you aim to do? I dont know,” where Blevins had just lost everything, so he is distressed (All the Pretty Horses 55). Nonetheless, alike all other conversations in the story, the dialog is dry because these young men who are surviving on the dangerous land in Mexico must be strong in all situations and thus it causes them to project little emotion when they speak to each other to not be portrayed as weak. Additionally, the dialog in both use such colloquial style, using conjunctions, slang, and lack proper English since in All the Pretty Horses, the boys lack formal schooling and in The Road, the characters struggle to do ordain tasks, therefore, it would be much too strenuous and unfitting to speak in formal English. Nonetheless, even the descriptions of landscape and action are very simple within each story. For example, McCarthy uses this simple style when he wrote, “A metal barrel full of trash. He went into the office. Dust and ash everywhere. The boy stood in the door. A metal desk, a