Free Write for No Country for Old Men

No country for old men is known as one of the best novels in a long time. the book has one prize after prize and I think it deserves all the prizes it recieved. McCarthy makes the men the power in the book and makes it seem like all the men have more power then the women. Women do not have a real part in the book and I feel that is because of McCarthy's past. He has not had a marriage that has stuck and I feel that he lacks the knowledge to put the women character into the book. I feel that is why he gives the men so much power and so much intensity in the book. The book is all about power and in all the relationships in the book the men told the women what to do and the women abided. The book was well written for what McCarthy wanted to get out. He didnt want it to be like a regular book and thats why it has been up for prize after prize. I feel in a way all McCarthy's books relate to his life one way or an another.

Free Write For Beloved

Beloved is suppose to be one of the best books on slavery and in my opinion it lives up to its expectations. The best part of the book is that it always keeps you wondering especially with beloved. Who is she really? what is she a symbol of? how come she decided to come back? Because of this its a very interesting book. One thing i wonder throughout the novel is how come beloved didnt come back and murder the mother when the mother is the one who killed her as a baby. There are two different sides to this. One might believe that she didnt come back and kill the mother because the mother killed her because she loved her and didnt want to see her go through what she experienced with slavery. others might think she should have got back at her mother because you should never kill anyone even out of love especailly your own child. this book leaves many questions in peoples mind

Free-write - Hard-Boiled Wonderland...

There are plenty of signs in that link the two stories (or worlds) like paper clips and skulls and the librarian. But is the librarian the same person in both worlds? I have many other questions as well. Why unicorns and unicorn skulls? Is the unicorn skull the professor gives the protagonist real, or is it really fake as he says. The skull in the real world does begin to glow just like in the protagonist's subconscience. Why don't the characters have names, yet many famous people in pop culture are mentioned. The main character shares many interests with the author Haruki Murakami. Is this how he generates his characters in his novels? When the protagonist makes a mistake counting the coins in the elevator, is this a sign for things ahead? How do days go by in his subconscience when only hours have gone by in the real world?

free write for the celebrant

the celebrant was a good book but i personally think it receives too much hype.  the novel is often considered one of the best baseball novels of all time.  i think this isnt so because the book only deals with baseball for a short amount of time.  most of the novel is dealing with the personal demons of jackie kapp.  his attempts to move away from the old jewish style of living that his family has, he obsession with christy mathewson, and his disbeleif of anything bad going on in baseball.  also i think that dealing with great baseball players like christy mathewson is great but the novel needed to deal more with him.  it speaks of his legendary no hitter but then more or less he disappears untill he meets kapp while he is dieing.  if kapp was truly obsessed like it shows in the novle shouldnt we deal with his obsession the whole novel?  also the focous on the black sox scandal is kind of vague unless you are an avid baseball person and know about it already.  then late in the novel when kapp meets mathewson, mathewson is a jerk to him and thats it, nothing else happens with him.  finally i think the novel would have benefitted from fictional places instead of real places.

free write No country..

In No Country for Old Men, McCarthy basically has no important female characters. The only two that really stand out are the hitchhiker and Carla Jean. He kills off the hitchhiker and what surprised me the most was the fact that when Carla found out her husband has been with another girl in a hotel room it was seen as no big deal. McCarthy totally disregarded her feelings and went on to the next chapter. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that McCarthy has been through two divorces. It is possible that he has given up on women. However, in No Country, I feel he is somewhat sexist because the women in the book are not important at all. McCarthy may have just given up on women altogether or maybe he never really understood women in the first place and that is why he has been through two divorces. Also, the book is extremely violent especially the character Chigurh he continuously murders people without ever getting caught. In a way, I feel McCarthy resembles Chirgurh. One way I feel they resemble each other is because Chigurh is never found and McCarthy stays away from the media. It is very rare that he will voluntarily let himself be interviewed. Just like Chigurh he doesnt want to be "found." Also, after two divorces McCarthy may have felt that he had no control over his life. By creating the character Chigurh, McCarthy is able to exude the power he wishes he had. He uses violence as power in the book. Chigurh is so violent in the sense that he has killed so many individuals and yet he never gets caught. Therefore, Chigurh is seen as powerful because he gets whatever he wants. From the time McCarthy was a little boy he strived for power. He even went as far as to change his name to Cormac after an Irish King. Kings are very powerful because they rule the people and the land.

Self-Inventory

Somewhere in the novel Slaughterhouse Five there must be some deeper understanding or meaning for the craziness. The way the whole book jumps back and forth between different events in Billy Pilgrim's life has to have more meaning. It could easily be explained by the author going mentally insane or senile some kind of disease like that but other than that it still doesn't make sense to me. There is no emotion in the entire book other than when Billy Pilgrim sees the abused horse, not a tear when his wife died, no sadness when his friends and soldiers were killed, nothing. The recurrence of "So it goes" after every death or bad event symbolizes the way he felt about almost everything. Why did the author pick those words? Kurt Vonnegut dealt with a lot throughout his life but why was the whole theme of the book negative? Of all the different characters that could have been chosen why Valencia? Why the one woman who no one wanted to marry and was described so poorly? What was the point of adding the gruesome scene with the killing of the dog?

Free Write- No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men has some reoccuring symbols that are imperative to it's meaning. Guns would be the most obvious and effective of the symbols. Guns are seemingly a symbol for power. Only the men in the novel posses them. There are also a wide variery of various guns. Why do the women never gain control of guns? Why do the men change weapons so frequently? What would the story be like without guns? Animals are used a couple of times as a symbol. At the start of the novel there is a large black dog, which in superstitions is regarded as an omen of bad luck or death. The dog clearly forshadows events to come. Horses are used to portray emotion. When the horses are at the drug scene they are uneasy and jumpy as to convey the emotions of the men. But because they are men in the modern western they are clearly not allowed to show emotion. Why is it that McCarthy does not allow for almost any emotion? Even the women characters are somber and accepting of whatever their male "superiors" tell them. How would an influx of emotion affect the flow or meaning of the novel?