Cuatro Ciénegas Summary
• The setting starts out at the Grady’s farm in San Angelo, Texas. Then after his mom says they are moving he bails and runs down to Mexico with his best friend Rawlins. In some small town they stopped at they picked up a new friend Blevins. Then one night it started storming and Blevins being scared took and curled up in the ditch and slept there till morning and found his horse and gun missing. He went into the town of Encatada and found the horse and ended up shooting someone and was placed in the jail of Encatada. As they were moving south they found a little town named Cuatro Ciénegas where they found jobs as a handy mans for Rawlins and then Hector saw how good John was with horses and moved him to be a horse breeder. After John and Alejandra’s relations Hector finds out and they are placed in jail back in Encantada with Rawlins. Then later Blevins is killed for the murdering of someone, and John and Rawlins are released by Hector against his will but because his daughter pleads with him. Then once free Rawlins goes back to his home in San Angelo, but John still in love with Alejandra says he has to go back and see her in Cuatro Ciénegas. Once there she tells him he needs to leave because she isn’t allowed to love him. So he travels back to San Angelo where he finds out that his father passed away and his mother moved to an unknown location. …show more content…
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