A Jesuit And Super-Theme

The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck.

This one was assigned for English class my freshman year of high school, by

a Jesuit who made it clear that we shouldn't read it just for pleasure. Look for the super-theme, he urged

, which was no easy task because the novella's fourth and last section, The Leader of the People, has no obvious connection with the rest. (By the way, I've hung on to my 25-cent Bantam paperback edition ever since.)
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