The Red Pony | Characters
All four stories involve the maturation of Jody Tiflin, a boy of about ten when the action opens. He lives on his family's ranch with his father, Carl, his mother, Ruth, and the hired hand, a middle-aged cowboy named Billy Buck. From time to time they are visited by Jody's grandfather, a venerable old man who led one of the first wagon trains to California.
"The Gift," the first story in the sequence, concerns Jody's red pony, which he names Gabilan after the nearby mountain range. The pony soon becomes a symbol of the boy's growing maturity and his developing knowledge of the...
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