In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy reveals what happens when you learn truths about the world through John Grady Cole's journey as he leaves home and experiences the realities of the world in a country foreign to him. Dissatisfied with their life at home, John and Rawlins leave for Mexico, believing they have the opportunity to create their own new lives by adventuring and exploring the unknown. With an idealistic vision of the world, they cannot imagine the difficulties they will encounter on their journey through Mexico, a world completely foreign to them. Through their difficult experiences and the gradual loss of identity in John and Rawlins' journey, McCarthy suggests that to discover the reality of the world, one must lose one's naivety and, in many ways, become an entirely new person. to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay At the beginning of their adventure in Mexico, Rawlins' wallet is destroyed and Blevins loses his clothes, which means both the loss of their identity and becoming a new person, distinct from the people back home. Throughout the novel, they are continually physically changed in ways that symbolize the changes they must go through to become entirely new people as they enter a new world and a new life for them. At the beginning of their journey, when John and Rawlins meet Blevins, Rawlins mocks Blevins and, in a competitive and performative behavior, Blevins tells him to "throw your wallet in the air" and says he will "put a hole in it" (48) Rawlins throws his wallet into the air and Blevins punches a hole in it, destroying the wallet and everything in it, containing his money and ID, is a symbol of his identity .The wallet destroyed immediately after crossing the border into Mexico shows the first act of the characters losing their identities as they abandon their homes and travel to this new land, Blevins hides from a storm and when John and Rawlins find him, he has lost his clothes and his horse. John asks Blevins "Where are your clothes?" and Blevins replies "washed away". ” and Blevins says “I know” (71). This also symbolizes that the boys lose their old identity. Blevins is literally stripped of his identity as he sheds his clothes, forcing him to begin his new life in a new world symbolically naked as a child being born, starting his life in the world. These are the first signs of the characters becoming new people. Losing Rawlins' wallet, his only form of identification, and Blevins' clothes as he is literally stripped of his identity, they are physically changed and forced to become new people. As the characters continue to move through Mexico, they have many disturbing experiences which McCarthy includes showing the brutality of the world that John does not see at first. John begins the novel as a very idealistic and naive character, who little anticipates the harsh realities of the real world. He is optimistic and sees the good in everything, but overlooks the bad. For example, when he and Rawlins first meet Blevins, Rawlins is suspicious of Blevins' horse and accuses him of stealing it. While Blevins continually tells people that it is his horse, John defends him and actually believes that he is telling the truth, such as when the captain questions him by asking "Why did he [Blevins] come here to steal horses?" and John replies “It was his horse” (168). John experiments and.