Analysis Of Charles Portis's True Grit

“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You can’t earn that or deserve it” (Portis 40.) Everything you do, good or bad, carries some sort of judgment from the Lord. You might slip through the cracks from this world judgments and law, but you will be judged according to your doings, in this world by God. You can’t earn nor deserve the Grace of the Lord, because it was already given to us in the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. “Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification” (Romans 4:25.) This gave us Grace to be forgiven after our sin if we repent from further sinning’s. This means you can’t go and commit a crime of revenge, knowing God’s words

Mattie Ross believed she was a “good Christian” (Portis 92) but she is just as callous as Tom Chaney’s soul. “The wicked flee when none purseth” (Portis 17), the wicked is always looking back and are jumpy because they know deep down; they’re in judgment of some sort. She takes the law and justice into her own hands, to pursue her father’s murder and unaware that the little devil is holding her hand into the darkness. Mattie’s Christian ways are deceived by the misinterpretation of the biblical passages in the Old Testament “eye for [an] eye” (Exodus 21:24) to fit her avenge to seek blood from the man who is hardened in heart with no sympathy for his actions. This was the beginning of God’s will and redemption in Mattie’s life of a sinful

The words of the gospel will be given into you by the holy spirt, only if you have faith in God’s Grace and repented from sin. “Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desire: but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires” (Romans 8:5) Mattie knows nothing that comes from God nor does she ever mention prayer request from God in time of need. Mattie seeking revenge made her to become callous as Tom Chaney ruthless soul. She goes into the valley of the shadow of death and holding the devil’s hand while she hunts for Tom Chaney. Walk by faith, not by sight! The “eye for eye, tooth for tooth” (Exodus 21:24, Deut. 19:20-21, Lev. 24:19-20) saying appeared in the three different section in the old testament, where God was laying out a punishment for one who injures another person in a physical way. The rules for the punishment were to be carried out as a nation of Israel, not by individuals. God clearly set out limits of punishment; he prevented any over punishments that might come from human’s having the right to seek their own punishment of the crime. God wants to make sure justice was done, but he also wanted to make sure that it was appropriate justice, not