No Country for old men starts out by remembering Bells first ever arrest. The psychotic killer is on death row and is about to face his death. He has no emotion on his face he doesnt even show remorse.The story is about Mexican and American drug users and sellers and a regular old texas boy. The Sheriff gets called to the scene of the murder and just doesn't know what to do or say.He knows its not something they have seen before. He then goes to the Sheriffs and they are trying to keep the murder under control before the violence escalates. The whole story is based through Bell. He doesn't understand what has happened to the country. When he had first became a police officer he claimed all he had to do was break up fights. There were no guns pulled on officers. Bell feared for his life now.
Llewlyn Moss is just a innocent character in the book. He had a gun just to go and hunt for Antelope. He goes out one morning and he sees a drug deal gone bad. He doesnt contact the police though, which I thought was really weird. Instead he took the 2 million dollars back to his trailer. He came upon 4 dead bodies and a bunch of fire arms too. He goes back to his traler and hides the money under a bed in a guest room. He sleeps with his wife and gets up in the middle of the night and takes his gun and returns to the scene of the crime. He goes to help the man that was in trouble instead he finds 2 men that worked for the drug dealer and Chigurh reaady too kill him. Moss after a long night of running and dodging bullets goes back to his trailer and gets his wife and leaves town for good.
the sheriff is now trying to find Mossa and Chigurh before something bad happened.
Chigurh then kills all the dealers men and all that happened was a shot to the leg. He feels expectidly lucky.
After everything carson wells gets hired to kill and Chigurh . Wells finds Moss and warns him that Chigurgh is out to kill Moss. Moss being a guys believes that he can avoid Chigurgh.
Moss doesn't understand that Chigurgh will do anything to get his money back even kill his wife before he got to Moss. Chigurgh wants Moss dead and he will kill the most important people in his life to get to Moss.
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"No Country For Old Men" is essentially a modern day western-style story taking place in Southwest Texas in 1980. McCarthy begins the story by giving a brief monologue spoken by Sheriff Bell, who is the protagonist of the story, who reminsces of the only person he was responsible for executing. Sheriff Bell is an older man, who is also a veteran of World War II, whose primary goal is to keep his county under control. McCarthy then introduces the reader to the psychopathic character by the name of Chigurh, who brutally strangles the deputy while being held in custody at the local jail in the opening scene of the story. McCarthy describes this scene writing, "The deputy's right carotid artery burst and a jet of blood shot across the room and hit the wall and ran down it." This gruesome scene gives insight to some of the grim undertones presented throughout the story. Chigurh then goes on to reak havoc throughout the once peaceful town.
The overall premise of the story, however, is that one of the main character's, Llewelyn Moss, stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad while hunting antelope in the desert. Moss' findings include loads of parcels containing heroin, over $2 million, automatic weapons and several dead bodies. Moss then makes the life-changing decision to take the money and run. However, this proves to be a terrible mistake as Moss is kept on the run by government officials and criminals alike throughout the story.
No Country For Old Men is a suspenseful thriller that gives insight into the minds of a psychopathic killer as well as the sheriff who is trying to keep his town under control. The book also tends to focus on some of the less cheerful and more grim aspects of literature that touch upon the issue of death and destruction. The book also illustrates on man's answer to the imperative question, "If you happened to stumble upon a suitcase filled with cash, what would you do?"
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