Throughout the book Jody seems to not care about some animals, he had a strange hobby of hurting them. Life is so fragile and we forget that sometimes, like how Jody did. Jody was given a responsibility to care for both horses, but even when everything seemed good life happens and things die. Jody learns about life through many ways, but I think most evident event was when Gabilan died and Nellie, the horse that bore Jody’s future colt, had passed away. This experience showed Jody that he should be responsible and take blame for our mistakes instead of blaming others. Although, this did help Jody learn from his mistakes in showing him that he should not fully trust others and what they say because everyone is human, and we make mistakes. He blaming Billy Buck for his horse, who eventually gets strangles and die was childish and irresponsible. But he was wrong about the weather for that day, for a little after noon the clouds pushed over the hills and the rain began to pour.” Jody had put all his trust all on Billy Buck when he shouldn’t have put all that responsibility onto him for Gabilan. That goes for saying when in the book it said, “Billy Buck wasn’t wrong about many things. Jody took responsibility in training Gabilan, and this also could have shown him the responsibility of caring for another life.

That is when Carl trusted in Jody to take care of, and train a red pony that Jody later named Gabilan. In the first novella, The Gift, Jody is given a challenge of responsibility.

The pearl the red pony