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Last night I watched the 2007 movie, No Country for Old Men. It very closely followed the book only adding/ removing some parts that I wish they could have been present. The movie’s three main characters were cast very well with Josh Brolin (Llewelyn Moss), Javier Bardem (Chigurh) and one of my favorite actors, TommyContinue reading “No Country for Old Men Movie “Review””

Cormac McCarthy was born in 1933 in Rhode Island. Early in his life his Family moved to Tennessee for his father’s work and his family was considerably more wealthy than his neighbors. He later went to be apart of the Air Force and while stationed in Alaska started his writing career. His first novel wasContinue reading “Cormac McCarthy”

Yes. Let’s look at the the requirements that our class has set up for a Great American Novel and find some examples from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. American Content: The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Missouri in the 1850’s. Slavery is still a major industry and it is a major aspect of thisContinue reading “Should Huck Finn be considered a “great American novel”?”

Do you approve or disapprove of the main character’s views or actions, reactions and treatment of other characters/animals/etc.?  Well yes and no. Huck fled his father because he beat him and locked Huck in the cabin that he was squatting in. Huck was practically immune to the beatings before he left but what really got him wasContinue reading “Huckleberry…”

A lot happens in the first 41 pages (six chapters) of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry who I will refer to as Huck is a young boy living with his widowed aunt in the riverside town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. His mother had died and his father is a drunk who beats on HuckContinue reading “Huck Finn”

As I was reading The Day of the Locust, I wanted to know more about Hollywood and how it survived the Great Depression. What I found shocked me and proved to me that film is a universal art form that nearly everyone can participate in today and apparently in the past. On average, 60-80 millionContinue reading “Hollywood in the Great Depression”

As our class is reading The Grapes of Wrath, I wanted to learn more about the Dust Bowl and what it actually was. I knew very little about it before hand; I knew that it was dry, people moved and that people suffered but what I really wanted to know was that were there reallyContinue reading “The Dust Bowl: What Happened?”