Cowboy: The New Yorker

This reading was quite interesting. It told the story of a cowboy who worked with this old man and his sister on a ranch. The two eventually develop a relationship as they tended the land and horses daily. The cowboy eventually opened up and told the old man how he ended up on the ranch. He had been paroled out of jail for robbing and shooting a store owner. Tragedy approaches and the old man becomes ill, so ill to the point where he could no longer remember who the cowboy was. Sad to say , but this was the end of their relationship. Authorities came in and kicked the cowboy off the land and used it for their benefit. Unfortunately, the cowboy was forced to leave and find work else where.

I felt sympathy for the cowboy, because even though he had done wrong in the past he was willing to make a change to better himself. We have all made mistakes and did things in our past that we are not proud of. Did he miss his opportunity to do so while on the ranch with the old man ? I hope not because everyone deserve a second chance in life.