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Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Cormac McCarthy: Author. One of our greatest living American novelists. Wrote and lived between Tennessee and Texas. 2005 brought the publication of No Country for Old Men , which was adapted into an award-winning film by Joel and Ethan Coen .

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Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men

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  1. Cormac McCarthy’sNo Country for Old Men

  2. Cormac McCarthy: Author • One of our greatest living American novelists. • Wrote and lived between Tennessee and Texas. • 2005 brought the publication of No Country for Old Men, which was adapted into an award-winning film by Joel and Ethan Coen.

  3. Cormac McCarthy: Style • This novel is set in our own time (1980s) along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico. • You don’t need to read more than a page of McCarthy to realize he’s not a fan of punctuation. He has his own style of unorthodox dialect and punctuation.

  4. Cormac McCarthy: Villians • His books are populated by characters who articulate, in one form of another, a kind of negative philosophy, one founded upon war, brute strength, and chance. • McCarthy’s major villains are not simply bad guys in the mundane sense, but prophets of destruction.

  5. Cormac McCarthy: Heroes • Heroes act as the “moral compass” for characters in the novel who are unsure where they stand. • Promethean Story (allusion)

  6. Cormac McCarthy: Theme • McCarthy seems to say: the world may not be a beautiful place, but it’s worth fighting for and occasionally there are courageous people who do fight for it in spite of the odds.

  7. Cormac McCarthy: Themes • Importance of love • What to do to survive • Bad versus really bad versus evil • What it means to be an American • The importance of duty

  8. The Western • Stereotypes: • Cowboy • Sheriff • Villain • Damsel in distress • Local Color • Gunfights • Justice at all costs • Formulaic westerns: • Colorful characters who spoke an equally colorful language and situations in which simple virtues finally triumphed over apparent immoralities

  9. Contemporary Westerns • Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. • Often features Old West-type characters struggling with displacement in a "civilized" world that rejects their outdated brand of justice.

  10. Focus on Literary Devices • Narration • Style • Conflict • Imagery • Antagonist • Protagonist • Foil • Characterization • Plot • Subplot • Mood • Allusion • Simile • Metaphor • Theme • Contemporary Western

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