Friday, March 21, 2008
No country for old men
The first chapter starts off with someone talking about a murderer killing a fourteen year old girl and how he gets executed. Chigurgh, a convict, is left handcuffed in the Deputy's office. When the deputy is not watching, Chigurgh kills him by choking him with the chains of his handcuffs. Lewelyn Moss is a young man who is married to Carla Jean who is nineteen. They have been married for three years and live in a trailer. While out hunting, Moss comes along two vehicles with several dead mexicans. One mexican is alive and wants water but Moss pays no attention to him. Moss looks around the vehicles and finds heroin and a briefcase with 2 million dollars. He finds several guns and decides to take the H&K with him. Along with the H&K, he takes the two million back home with him. Moss wakes up in the middle of the night and goes back to the vehicles. He also brings some water for the thirsty Mexican. However, he is too late and the Mexican is already dead. Also when he gets there, he disovers that the guns he left behind are gone. He soon discovers he is not the only one here and he hides from a truck. The men in the truck come after him. Moss swims through the river to safety. The two men still managed to hit him in the arm with a buckshot. Moss manages to walk and find a taxi to take him to his wife. He and his wife agree that they must leave the trailer and go to Odessa where Carla Jean's mother lives. Meanwhile, Chigurh finds Moss's truck and the dead men in the vehicles. The local Sheriff, Bell, and his assistant, Wendall, hear word about the dead Mexicans in the vehicles. They saddle up horses and proceed to the crime scene to survey what happened. Chirgurh, goes to Moss, trailer looking for him. It is too late because Moss and his wife have already left. Moss leave his wife in Odessa and get a room at a motel. He takes the money and hides it in an air duct. Then he carefully listens for any sign of danger and then goes to sleep. While Moss was sleeping, Chigurh is getting closer as he pulls into the parking lot of the motel. Chirgurh discovers a couple of Mexicans in one of the motel rooms and shoots them before they even knew what happened. Moss no longer felt safe in his room in the motel, so he goes onto another motel called the Eagle Pass. He bribes the night clerk with one hundered dollars to call his room if anyone else checks into the motel. During the night Moss hears a man in his room and threatens him with a gun. He leaves the motel but Chigurh is in the balcony above the hotel and shoots Moss. With blood pouring out everywhere Moss pays some boys for a coat to cover himself up. Moss makes his way to the hospital. Bell drives up to Odessa to question Carla Jean. He asks her if she knows of her husbands whereabouts or anything else. She knows nothing. While Moss is in the hospital Carson Wells, visits him to talk about all that is going on. Wells tells Moss that Chirgurh will not stop looking for him even if he does get the money.
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The summary is done very well, in that it gets the main point of the first half of the novel across. However it could have used a few more transistions, to keep the readers attention, and the sentences were kind of short and choppy.
overall the summary was put together good. i think it could have used more transitions to make it flow better. right now it is kind of like "this happened then this happened." the detail in the summary is very good just needs to be put together more smooth.
I felt that this summary was very thorough and precise. It touched upon all of the major scenes of the story thus far without going into too much detail. However, it would be nice if you perhaps incorporated some of the major and clearly prevalent themes and tones of "No Country For Old Men" as well. After all, in order for the reader of your summary to truly understand the dark undertones and emotions evoked while reading this book, it is crucial to make note of some of primary themes such as greed, corruption and so forth. Your summary would also read much more fluidly if you included more conjunctions rather than the excessive short and choppy sentences that you chose to use. Otherwise, your summary was very to-the-point and concise.
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