The Red Pony By: John Steinbeck Digital Folder By: Kenzie

1. The Red Pony By: John Steinbeck Digital Folder By: Kenzie

2. Main Events • Jody gets Gabilan • Jody goes to school and comes home to Gabilan sick. • Gabilan gets very ill. • Gabilan dies. • The pony is eaten by a buzzard.

3. Settings • The ranch house • The bunkhouse • Barn • Horse stall • Harness room • Jody’s school

4. Characters Billy Buck- A ranch hand that works at the ranch Jody- A young boy who lives on the ranch Carl Tiflin- Jody’s father, a strong a serious man that owns the ranch Ruth Tiflin- Jody’s mother, a women of neatness and work Gabilan- The horse that is given to Jody by his father School Boys- some of the boys that Jody attends school with. Gitano- an old Mexican man who was from Jody’s area and wanted to die close to home.

5. Summary 1pg.3-18 A little boy named Jody Tiflin lives on a ranch with his parents and their cowhand Billy Buck. One day Jody’s father Carl Tiflin and Billy Buck came home and they had a surprise for Jody. Carl Tiflin had gotten his boy a red pony at an auction. All Jody wanted to do was take care of the pony and not worry about his commen house chores. His mother Ruth Tiflin reminded him a lot not to worry about the pony and to focus on the chores he already had. Jody named his Horse Gabilan which means hawk. He was going to name it Gabilan Mountains which means hawk mountains, but Billy buck said that that was to long of a name and to just name him Gabilan.

6. Summary 2pg.19-35 Billy Buck said it would not rain, but it did. Jody was at school and was afraid that it would rain and Gabilan would catch a cold. When Jody got home the horse was sick. Billy had to cut a knot that was on Gabilan’s throat. Billy said that would make him better. It kind of helped, but not by much. When Jody got up the next morning, he heard Gabilan coughing. He knew that the end of the pony’s life was approaching. He spent the night in the barn, and when he woke up the horse was gone! He ran out and could clearly see Gabilan’s tracks. He followed them to find what he was looking for… the horse. The only problem was that he was to late. Gabilan was laying dead being pecked by buzzards. At the very end of the chapter, Billy Buck yells at Carl Tiflin. I think Billy is more of Jody‘s father than Carl is.

7. Summary 3pg.36-52 Jody was so bored after Gabilan died. So the first thing he did, was he set a mouse trap so that Double-Tree Mutt would get his nose snapped in it. It really didn’t bother him to be cruel. Next he took his slingshot down to the brush line to try and shoot a bird. A little bit later an old man walked up the drive. His name was Gitano. He was born at a ranch in the mountains, and he wanted to die close to his home. Carl Tiflin didn’t want him to stay, but he felt he couldn’t be mean. Later Gitano spotted Carl’s old horse Easter and wanted him. He later stole him so he could go live in the mountains.

8. Summary 4pg.52-69 Jody was walking home from school, daydreaming. He then found a toad and put it in his lunch pail. He stopped by the letterbox and grabbed the letter and catalog. When he got home he banged his lunch pail down on the sink and told his mom that he had picked up a catalog. Ruth Tiflin then told Jody that his father wanted him out in the barn. When Jody was walking to the barn, he heard his mom open the lunch pail and sigh in anger. When he got to the barn Carl Tiflin, his father, asked him if he thought if he could have a horse, if he would work for it. Carl told him to take the mare, Nellie to be bread at the ranch down the road. When he got back he fed the chickens, stocked the wood, and helped Bill Buck, the ranch hand carry in a pail of milk. Jody is going to have another shot at a horse.

9. Summary 5pg.70-92 Jody woke up worrying about the mare, Nellie. He tried to sneak out, to see her. He made it to the barn, but didn’t realize Billy Buck was sleeping in the haystack. Just before dawn Jody was awakened by the shake of his shoulder. He opened his eyes to find Billy. Billy said it was time the colt be born. When they got to the barn, Billy felt the colt, and said it was really wrong. He told Jody to leave, but he wouldn’t. So Jody turned his head. He heard the crack of a bone, and turned to see Nellie drop to her side in death. But at last the colt was born.

10. John Steinbeck Born- John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. He was born to a meaning family, which means his family was of significant quality. Life- He started at Stanford University. However John Steinbeck never did graduate from that particular college. Later in life he went to New York where he was attempting to establish or make himself a free-lance writer, which is a person who writes independently. His books or novels could be considered as “Social Novels”. The novel that made him wildly popular was the novel “Tortilla Flat”. He also served as a watchman at a house in the High Sierra.

11. The 1930’s In the 1930’s they used the term “dude”, but not in the way we use it today. The way they used it simply meant “someone that was not from their area”. Even though there was a huge increase in population, more “dudes” started to arrive by railroad. The 1930’s was the time of the great depression.

12. Credits Websites- blogspot.com www.google.com Xroads.virginia.edu Books- The Red Pony By: John Steinbeck