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jpwagoneer1964:
At Lightning Flat the toy horse and rider that Ennis sees on Jacks desk. Childhood toy or a gift of Ennis of the one he carved? You can see tears in his eye as he picks it up. Very heartwrenching either way.
At first I always thought childhood toy but now I'm not so sure.

gattaca:
I would guess 'childhood toy'. I recall the scene on the main camp tent during the 1st rainstorm and Ennis is carving what appears to be just a horse with no rider out of balsawood (but I don't know where he'd get balsawood up there).

That's not to say that Ennis couldn't have given Jack another gift during their long association.

bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
I haven't looked close enough to determine whether or not they are the same toy. I choose to think they are just because that, to me, is so profound -- and sad.  :'(

Penthesilea:
I think it's not the same figurine. The one Ennis carves has no rider on it.
Usually you carve figurines out of one piece of wood. Horse and Rider. Although it is surely possible to carve a horse, then a rider and put them together afterwards.

The horse Ennis carves is much chunkier (coarser?). It's not finished yet when we see it, it's still very raw, so everything is possible. But for my eyes, it's a different style of carving.

And the angle between the horse's head and his jugular is different. The horse carries his head in another way.

I'll attach two pics of the two figurines.

iristarr:
I always thought it was clearly a childhood toy - certainly not carved out of wood, but molded of some kind of plastic or composite material.  From his childhood -- I imagine boy-Jack dreaming of himself as a grown-up cowboy. There was also a glitch in that scene of Ennis in Jack's room:  he picks up the figurine and examines it, then sets it back down on the desk.  In the next view of the desk I don't see the figurine in the same place he set it. Also, I often wondered what happened to the horse Ennis was carving in the tent. Like to think he gave it to Jack, but he probably just threw it out when they moved back down off the mountain. For what it's worth . . .

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