The inevitable outcomes of fate in our lives are like an endless chain of dominoes falling in succession. Every action is calculated and deliberate; our lives are a predetermined path that only someone as powerful as God could change. Cormac McCarthy demonstrates both the good and bad that the power of fate brings to his character John Grady in All the Pretty Horses. John Grady's journey begins in Texas, where after his grandfather's death he realizes that he doesn't have much left there. It idealizes a cowboy lifestyle not found in Texas. He travels with his friend Rawlins across the border into Mexico, a lawless, desert land where trouble never seems too far away. Fate brings him to a wayward boy named Blevins, whose erratic behavior and his rare, expensive, and supposedly stolen horse create a series of dilemmas for John Grady when he arrives at La Purísima, a Mexican ranch. On the ranch he finds much more than just the cowboy lifestyle he desires; he also finds Alejandra, the owner's attractive daughter. Fate wants him to fall in love with her, but fate also wants their love to be forbidden. Things only get worse when John Grady gets in trouble with the law which only ensures more chaos. The series of events that Cormac McCarthy writes in All the Pretty Horses is meant to unfold as if the hands of fate subjected John Grady to all the pain and suffering so that he would be reborn, mature, and find salvation at the end of the journey. ways of predestination and destiny occur for the first time to push John Grady away from home and towards Mexico. The first "push" comes when John Grady loses his grandfather: "He looked at the face so hollowed out and drawn between the fold of the funeral sheet, the yellow mustache, the paper of the eyelids... half of the paper... ... and healed by his imagination childhood of a cowboy life. The road to his newfound salvation was paved with suffering, but it was worth all the pain. The author uses fate to unfold the events of the book so that each builds on each other, to lead to the purpose of John Grady's suffering: his rebirth. Throughout the book, fate perhaps tempts him away from his moral or logical decision, because he consciously would not have made those decisions on his own. It is also through this journey that John Grady finds God, the controller of destiny. Despite the suffering, John Grady does not develop a bitter relationship, but a closer relationship with God as God brings him closer to salvation. Still dealing with the crimes and events of Mexico, John Grady has not lost his adventurous nature in his hometown of Texas. The book leaves the possibility that another adventure awaits him.