Friendships are a big part of careers, through the whole story Edgar Prado tells his friendship between him and his horse Barbaro. My Guy Barbaro, by Edgar Prado, was about a young, aspiring race horse named Barbaro. From the start of his first race, America knew he was something special. Then their careers took a turn both of them wouldn’t want. During one of their races Barbaro severely injures his back right leg. Survival is a lens that goes with this book because both of their careers have their thicks and thins, their ups and downs but it all can come with greatness attached with it. The jockey / author, Edgar Prado develops the theme that greatness can come easy, but greatness can come hard as well, by using setting, symbolism, and conflict. To begin Edgar Prado uses setting to develop the theme of the story. Setting is where and when the story takes place. For example on page 11 Edgar says, “They had gotten into a spat over a horse Michael trained named Kicken Kris. I won a race on him at Belmont in June 2004, convincing Michael to run him in the Arlington Million, a big summertime race in Chicago.” This quote supports the thesis because his agent and trainer got into a feud with each other. So Edgar has to figure out a way to settle this feud between his trainer and …show more content…
Symbolism is the use of physical objects to represent a deeper meaning. This is shown when Edgar Prado says, “I had been trying desperately to arrange a visa for her so she could come to America and receive medical care, but the U.S. embassy in Lima had repeatedly turned us down”(49). This quote supports the thesis because he was trying to get his mom a visa so that she could come get treatment for her cancer and health care to help pay for it. It shows that he really cared for his mother and wanted his mother to get better in health. This is how the quote supports the thesis by showing a hard part in his