Book report – No Country for Old Men

After having read the book you should write a book report. A text about what you thought and felt when you read the book. The book report should be at least one page long.

Title: My thoughts after reading No Country for Old Men

If you want to make an even better report you can write one more page or possibly two. You can then consider the following questions.

  • In what way is this book a Western? In what ways is it not a traditional western? Why does it deviate from the western genre?
  • What does the title of the book mean? What do you think of Bell’s look on life?
  • Who is Anton Chigurh? What is he like? How do you see the the coin-toss scene?
  • The story is about chance, uncertainty, but also about what is determined and unchangeable. In what way? What do you think about life – in what sense is it uncertain? In what way determined? What does that tell you?
  • The book is also to some degree about money. What does it have to say about it? What do you think about that?
  • In what way are men and women portrayed in the book, what do you think about that?
  • Also: list any new words you looked up and learned.

 

Clips from the film that can help you in your report.

Deadline: 15th of November

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  1. My thoughts after reading No Country for Old Men

    For me this is a simple and an exciting book about the Vietnam veteran Llewelyn (Josh Brolin) is out on hunting in Texas’s deserted fields as he stumbles across a grotesque find with dead bodies, automatic weapons, broken cars.

    One car with heroin and a two million dollar bags. This morally is hard navigated environment, no witnesses, no cops, nothing as far as the eye reaches.

    Llewelyn takes the money a destructive choice that naturally triggers a chain reaction of violent events. He has the good-hearted police named Tommy Lee Jones and the psychopathic corps Cighurh (Oscar-winning Javier Bardem), who has to look like a transsexual dance band bassist but is a magnetically unpleasant role figure that is impossible to wreak his eyes on.

    The fact that this ordinary arrangement has become an extraordinary experience is thanks to the Coen’s way of visualizing it. Few directors would have self-confidence, or expertise, to tell the story of the same low-key, closest meditative ways.

    The vast desert-like environments, endless empty and endless rich in content at the same time. They chased, few people.

    The characters are positioned against each other like chess pieces, and the whole movie sounds under a ruthless, simple logic, where all actions are undoubtedly affected and nothing can be fully controlled.

    This book was really special because of the fact that he wrote it in a much different way, and I really like it the story was great.

    In what way is this book a Western? Because the book describes that this is in Texas and that they are talking with a southern accent and so on.

    What does the title of the book mean for you? The first thing that pops into my mind is that they are too old to find a fitting country for them.

    For me, this is a simple and an exciting book about the Vietnam veteran Llewelyn (Josh Brolin) is out on hunting in Texas’s deserted fields as he stumbles across a grotesque find with dead bodies, automatic weapons, broken cars.

    One car with heroin and a two million dollar bags. This morally is hard navigated environment, no witnesses, no cops, nothing as far as the eye reaches.

    Llewelyn takes the money a destructive choice that naturally triggers a chain reaction of violent events. He has the good-hearted police named Tommy Lee Jones and the psychopathic corps Cighurh (Oscar-winning Javier Bardem), who has to look like a transsexual dance band bassist but is a magnetically unpleasant role figure that is impossible to wreak his eyes on.

    The fact that this ordinary arrangement has become an extraordinary experience is thanks to the Coen’s way of visualizing it. Few directors would have self-confidence, or expertise, to tell the story of the same low-key, closest meditative ways.

    The vast desert-like environments, endless empty and endless rich in content at the same time. They chased, few people.

    The characters are positioned against each other like chess pieces, and the whole movie sounds under a ruthless, simple logic, where all actions are undoubtedly affected and nothing can be fully controlled.

    This book was really special because of the fact that he wrote it in such a different way, and I really like it the story was great.

    In what way is this book a Western? Because the book describes that this is in Texas and that they are talking with a southern accent and so on.

    What does the title of the book mean for you? The first thing that pops into my mind is that they are too old to find a fitting country for them.

    Gilla

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