Tuesday, November 12, 2013

No Country for Old Men

Themes

1. Death

2. Greediness

3. Misfortune

Meaning of the Work as a Whole

You can’t spend your whole life trying to fix the bad people in life, or try to get rid of them because you will waste all your time. The bad will never get caught; it will keep coming around, and around.

3 Important Quotations: Type out each quote and in 3-5 sentences explain how/why that quote is significant to the overall meaning

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” – This quote relates because it tells you that sometimes bad luck saves you from even more bad luck. Just like with trying to stop all the bad. If you’re out of luck trying to stop the bad, maybe that was a good thing.

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things” – This quote relates because people rarely are thankful for the good things in life, and always see the negative. Maybe people should stop worrying so much about the bad, because regardless its always going to be there, so to have self-comfort, focus on positive.

“You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it, it ain't even a problem. It's just an aggravation.” – This quote simply states that no matter how hard you try, you can’t fix something that doesn’t want to be fixed. Same with trying to fix all the bad in the world; no matter how hard one can try, it will always be there. So don’t get aggravated, just keep on moving forward.

Character Analysis

Sheriff Bell- He is a man who has old school morals, and isn’t used to the new technology coming into his life. He is a humble man with good purpose.

Llewellyn Moss- he is the guy who was at the right place, at the wrong time. Finding the money, then running away from people he didn’t mean to get involved with. He is a fighter, and won’t go down without a fight. He wants to make things right, but don’t care to have moral flexibility to keep his life.

Anton Chigurh- he is a clever hit man, who has a twisted and demented mind of killing people; has an obsession with luck, and believes life layouts out on it.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: Choose 3 Chapters and Connect those chapters to the movie. Go into specific detail as to how each chapter connects to a part of the movie.

Symbolism, Quest, Christ-like Figures
 

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