The novels No Country for Old Men and Raylan by Cormac McCarthy and Elmore Leonard‚ respectively‚ are both born of the same genre‚ but are drastically different novels. While both novels tend to follow the thriller genre‚ the entirety of the narrative‚ character‚ plot‚ setting‚ and point of view‚ differs greatly. Many would categorize the two novels differently‚ Raylan being called a thriller genre novel‚ while No Country for Old Men would be considered a literary novel with aspects of the thriller
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man’s thoughts on a series of different things‚ followed by a flash back. The thoughts go from his dream‚ he was previously in‚ and then onto more philosophical/ in his mind thoughts and then his view point on the world as it is now for him. Cormac McCarthy uses a number of different stylistic features to get across what is happening in the passage‚ for example he uses a lot of personification ’ the dream bore the look of sacrifice ’ this use of personification here illustrates the idea that the
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All The Pretty Horses By Cormac McCarthy Often in literature‚ authors use the novel’s setting to add certain significance to the story’s plot. Cormac McCarthy does this in his novel All The Pretty Horses. There is great significance in the setting because the story takes place in two contrasting locations‚ Texas and Mexico‚ rather than one central location. The novel opens up in Texas‚ in 1950. The opening scene is at John Grady Cole’s grandfather’s funeral. After the funeral‚ his mother plans
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and Telos of Cultural Myth in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and The Road maggie bortz So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us‚ you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. (McCarthy‚ 1999b‚ 143) It was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all. (McCarthy 1999a‚ 284) Although many
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In the novel ’The Road’ the author Cormac McCarthy uses the idea of choice in order to portray how characters react in an apocalyptic situation. .The road is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia where of government and set of rules is abolished. The novel follows a young boy and his father as they traverse through rough terrain in order to seek refuge to the east. McCarthy challenges the reader to determine how the reader would react in this situation‚ to retain morals and a sense of hope by ’carrying
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Charles Van Doren once said‚“I’ve learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be”. Often we tend to judge people off of what we first see in them; many times we let their words and actions describe them before we really get to know them and their intentions. One of the main characters‚ Papa‚ as expressed in the book‚ often denies helping others because he knows that it is best for him and his son’s survival. The book starts out with two unnamed characters‚ Papa and
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home duties‚ having no original ideas or thoughts of their own‚ while the status of the hero is elevated by destroying the savage and crude Native Americans. The American hero then finds love‚ and rides off into the sunset triumphant. Conversely‚ Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses challenges the romanticized American West with the use of setting‚
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war and violent colonization. Cormac McCarthy’s anti-Western novel‚ Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West‚ about a young man who ends up with a gang of men on a mission to hunt for American Indians following
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Cormac does an incredible job of portraying a young boys journey with his father through the post apocalyptic world. Cormac offers up information about what happened to the boy’s mother and a slight description of where they hope their journey will take them. This is about all the information that Cormac gives you‚ Cormac does an incredible job of leaving chunks of information out of the story to allow the reader to use their imagination. Cormac writes only half of the story
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Dickinson the author of both poems “Hope is a thing with feathers” mentions hope being a good thing to have in your soul‚ but “Hope is a subtle glutton” talks about hope being a glutton‚ meaning greedy eater. Dickinson’s poems somehow connects with Cormac McCarthy the author of the novel “The Road” that’s about a father and his son who have little hope that they would live another day. Hope can be explained a good or bad thing‚ but if you just a small amount of hope‚ you pushes yourself in a good direction
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