Question 1: Llewellyn Moss is a hard-working veteran who’s good with guns and remarkably resourceful and cunning. He’s not a schmuck. He understands that stealing 2.4 million dollars is serious business, and tries to make the best moves—making Carla Jean move to Odessa immediately, hiding the money deep in a vent when staying at a motel, preparing himself for every inevitability. He is paranoid because he understands he needs to be. However, though he’s smart and self-reliant, it’s not enough to prevent casualties. He is compassionate, and it’s this compassion that simultaneously makes him human and likeable but ultimately gets him and others around him killed. For example, early on he goes back with water for the remaining survivor and therefore …show more content…
He is traditional, nonviolent; he thinks wistfully of the past, when sheriffs didn’t carry guns and knew the phone number of everybody in the county, when people were less awful and didn’t commit terrible crimes every day. He doesn’t pursue the men who shoot through his windshield, he doesn’t go after Chigurh, he doesn’t risk his skin or his soul, because he recognizes that there are forces much stronger than him at play and that fighting is futile. He is completely useless at mitigating anything about the terrible situation at hand. This is illustrated by the fact that the most he can do is speculate at home with his wife about Moss’s whereabouts, or ruminate on his past or the state of the world at large in the italicized …show more content…
Chigurh is successful in meeting his objectives and sticking to his ideals; Bell is one the last men left standing, a spectator that seems to talk directly to the viewer; and Moss follows the classic hero arc most closely, in addition to setting the plot in motion initially. Using the criteria of being successful in meeting objectives and staying true to ideals, Chigurh indisputably fulfills both requirements. Despite that, most people wouldn’t see him as the protagonist, likely because he murders several people, never makes himself likeable or open, and kills the character everybody was rooting for, along with his innocent wife. On paper, he’s protagonist material; however, there’s more to it than that. Similarly, in terms of likeability, and in driving the plot forward, Moss is meant to be the protagonist. Though he’s not particularly on the side of good—he’s only trying to save his life—we root for him and hope he succeeds. But he doesn’t. He dies, and he dies without us seeing. He’s a protagonist, in a sense, but not the true one. Sheriff Bell
...shocked or afraid to get involved. The narration is meant to make his audience feel uncomfortable or inadequate, so that they will agree with him that they need help dealing with these types of problems. He has already spelled out the solution for them in the preceding paragraph by saying that giving the power to the state is the civilized thing to do (324). He is hoping that this last burst of pathos will close the deal and that his audience will be bound to agree that the death penalty is necessary to deter crime and mete out justice.
These experiences have stripped his love for humanity from him and left him in a mentality of near hatred for anyone willing to cause unnecessary death of animals. The two characters have both lost their personal wars purely through having things done to them that no man or woman should be forced to go through.
...and has to fight down his emotions, so we can relate to him. Ultimately, though, he keeps his self-control and wins out in the end, making him a true hero and a fine character.
I chose to write about the narrator and his friends because I found there was more to them than just the bad guy persona they wanted everyone to see. I find the narrator and his friends are dynamic characters because in the end of the story they lets go of all his childish pretending and changes into the en they are supposed to be. “We were bad. We read Andre Gide and stuck elaborate poses to show we didn’t give a shit about anything.” (Boyle 529) This quote sums up that they have to...
He has one task to perform - to kill the soldiers of the Free States. However, the most important line is that catches the attention of the reader is “.the eyes of a man who is used to look at death.” This is very ironic as he was earlier compared. to a student who is like a symbol of innocence where now he is spoken of a murderer as a child. He is engrossed in fulfilling his duty and is now a student of the violence of the.... ...
If he writes something, he says he cannot read it. The writing is unclear.” However, he is a static character due to him being stubborn throughout the story and always questioning others. He never develops a change throughout the story, even though he accepts that he was wrong, he remains authoritative yet stubborn throughout the end. The central idea is of cultural shock is supported by him having an authoritative
Staples figures there is not anything he can do to solve this issue and his conclusion was to change the way he acts around people so they are no longer afraid. This shows that society fears him and do not want anything to do with him. The ones around him try to get away from him as quick as possible that shows that they think of him as a threat and want to keep their distance. This helps readers understand the text by showing them that they fear him because they run away and keep their distance because they see him as a nuisance and someone to
Everyone has their own perception on what defines a hero; some may argue that they exhibit characteristics such as honesty or courage, while others may think that heroes have special power. Our society may have changed the values in which we associate heroes with, but one thing seems to have never changed: the main character of the book turns out as the hero. In my analyst, Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye, is put on trial as we see through our own eyes how Caulfield can not be considered a hero in modern society.
It is easily identifiable that Malron is the protagonist through his actions within the play. An example being when Malron stops himself from killing Marilyn. Rather than shooting her in the head, he pulls away the gun and begs his parents to allow Marilyn to stay aboard the Octagon. The reason that this shows he is the protagonist is because He states specifically to his parents, “Wait! I mean, she isn't really doing any harm, we could always just let her work on our spacecraft. You said we needed a new cook anyway! And…And…What if she was meant to come here for a reason?” (1.4). This quote shows his courageous act for Marilyn, making him the identifiable protagonist. As for the antagonist within our play, it is Malron’s mother and father. The reason that they are the antagonist is because of his disapproval of Malron wanting to save Marilyn’s life. The father directly states to Malron, “Look at her! She is already passed out, just make it easy and kill her. Besides, are you insane? A human? Working on my spacecraft! I couldn't have it!” (1.4). After this statement Malron’s mother agrees and questions why Malron wants to save Marilyn. These comments made by Malron’s parents are what make them the antagonists because of their opposition of what Malron is doing. . However, as the story proceeds we decided to make the parents accepting of Malron’s decision to save Marilyn because they care about their son's happiness. The protagonist and antagonist and are what made the story enjoyable for the
“You want to know what the bad guys look like. Now you know. It may happen again. My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you. Do you understand?” (77). This quote shows how protective he is over his spn and how he will do anything to keep him alive. It shows how much he loves his son.
The protagonist is a character central to the story. James Baldwin's “Sonny’s Blues” has two central characters but only one protagonist. Although this narrative is told from the narrator’s point of view, Sonny is the protagonist. The narrator is less empathetic, therefore, it is harder the reader to make an connection with him. He is very passive and distant; he is just reacts to events in Sonny’s life. Also, Sonny is in constant conflict with an antagonist-his drug addiction, and Sonny grow over the course of the story. He is a dynamic character. We can see him develop from an angry rebellious young teen to a young man weather by life.
While there is a definitive, singular villain of the story, Anton Chigurh, a gun for hire referred to as “a true and living prophet of destruction” (4) even he has more complexity and reality to him than most are willing to admit. A psychopath who seems to kill without a care, Chigurh is often described as impossibly inhuman. However, those claims ignore the reality of serial killers in the real world, such as Luis Garavito, Pedro Lopez, and Daniel Camargo-Barbosa who each raped and murdered hundreds of boys and girls as young as six years old. Also ignored are those who caused death and destruction for a cause or country which history has deemed acceptable, such as Sgt Dillard Johnson, Simo Hӓyhӓ, and Klaudia Kalugina, who collectively have killed over 3,500 people. However, even Chigurh is shown to display restraint and change by the end of the novel, and while not explicitly stated, he even has deeper motivations for his actions than violence for violence’s sake or for the money. Another character who could easily fall into tropes is the investigating officer of all the destruction Chigurh leaves in his wake, Sheriff Bell. Bell could have easily been written as a hero, brave and strong, and the moral compass of the novel. Instead, Bell is uncertain about the world around him, about what is right and wrong, and afraid of Chigurh. This fear of having to continue hunting Chigurh leads Bell to resign as sheriff, along with a a number of other morally and bravery deficient decisions. The third major character is McCarthy’s story, Llewellyn Moss, is neither hero nor villain, but a regular man who makes dubious decisions which ignite and drive the plot of the
After seeing through his eyes how he was planning on using the pain and hurt from some of the people to try and win his case, he no longer seems like such a hero, but not quite the villain. “But anytime I hear about a case like that school bus disaster up there, I turn into a heat-seeking missal, homing in on a target that I know in my bones is
kill.”” (Page 55) This is showing how he lets his primal side take over his thoughts when he is hunting. He forgets about everything he had ever been told about what’s right
There are several quotes throughout the movie that lean toward the vigilante side of heroism. " I'm gonna do what I do best, kill em" "You're talking a bout a war, Creasy" "Exactly" "Forgiveness is between them and God, It's my job to arrange a meeting" "Creasy's art is death, he's about to paint his masterpiece" (Man on Fire).