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    film. However in the film No Country for Old Men there is no music whatsoever. This deafening silence adds many unique features to the film itself. The silence allows the viewer to create the suspense themselves without being guided by music. The viewer is required to focus on the small details‚ and create suspense based on the other components that make up a film. Filmmakers rely upon certain stimulants when creating a film. Since No Country for Old Men is missing one of those components the others

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    The memorable coin toss scene in No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen‚ Joel Coen‚ 2007) primarily serves to reveal to the audience more about the fickle and psychopathic nature of the primary antagonist‚ Anton Chigurh. This scene begins with a fade into an extreme long shot of the store that Anton is stopping by at. This initial shot provides some background context on the setting of the scene‚ more or less in the isolated rural countryside. The scene then cuts to a medium long shot of the store owner

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    Plot (Major plot Events) Ralph called upon a meeting near nigh fall. He is thinking to see how the meeting should go‚ serious not fun. The meeting was held near fallen trees which forms a triangle shape. Ralph analyzed that a pacific storm ripped the trees which form the shape of a triangle. Ralph sat on the chief’s chair and thought about Piggy that he knows what to say‚ but since Ralph is the leader he had to express his thoughts and ideas to the children on the island. When Ralph began the assembly

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    in A Gathering of Old Men‚ by Ernest J. Gaines‚ should not just be judged by how he is in the beginning of the novel because he changes his perspectives throughout the book. The story is set in a fictional “Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s” (back cover) and focuses on the murder of Beau Boutan‚ a member of a white farming family. Sheriff Mapes‚ who is white‚ is set to arrest Mathu‚ a proud‚ old‚ black man‚ for killing Beau Boutan. Once the gathering of old‚ black men all claim they shot

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    the texture. In the poem Old Men Playing Basketball‚ B. H. Fairchild suggests that there is an eventual downfall to all lives; they try to reclaim their competence but doing so only evokes the nostalgia for the lost youth. Through the scene of old men basketball‚ Fairchild captures the details of the old men’s unfitness and laments on the speed that life decays at and the inabilities that comes with aging as memories of their younger self are still fresh. Though the old men can never be young again

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    let no stranger shoot my dog.” (Steinbeck‚ p. 61). John steinbeck is the author of Of Mice and Men. In this book‚ he introduces us to Candy and his dog. Candy and his dog are both on the old age side‚ and both are becoming more and more less helpful. Steinbeck used the dog to represent Candy and his fear of being old and useless. Steinbeck uses Candy’s old dog to represent Candy himself. His dog is old and gets in the way. When Carlson killed his dog it was like a reminder to Candy that he was getting

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    There are always two sides to every coin. The novel A Gathering of Old Men by Earnest Gaines shows that everyone has a story to tell and that their reality is based on their point of view. That perception has a way of molding a person’s actions‚ relationships‚ and personality. Revitalizing society’s way of life and altering prejudice against another’s ethnicity is difficult when the scars run deeply through generations. Ernest J. Gaines does an excellent job of giving the reader insight to the

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    Race has always been an issue in Louisiana. The characters in Gaines’ novel attempt to dissolve racial tension in the South. All of the black men gather together at the plantation so the lynching mob won’t attempt to attack them. Salt and Pepper‚ a black and a white football star‚ play together at LSU in the novel. This demonstrates racial cooperation. The novel takes place in Bayonne‚ Louisiana on the Marshall Plantation. The plantation’s white boss‚ Beau‚ is found murdered at the start of the

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    Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Syaman Rapongan’s Old Men of the Sea Impacted by Western cultures‚ Native American’s traditions gradually disappear. Similar to Native American‚ The Tao (達悟 Dawu) traditions are threatened by Han influences. To preserve indigenous customs‚ native writers either portray how dominant cultures impact aborigines or portray how native traditions do good for their lives. In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Syaman Rapongan’s Old Men of the Sea (老海人 Laohairen)1‚ both indigenous

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    The image of racial tension and segregation in A Gathering of Old Men is portrayed by the setting. The setting gives way to many important themes throughout the novel‚ one of them being the redefinition of black masculinity. The novel is set around the mid 1900s on a sugarcane plantation in rural Louisiana. This southern setting displays the tension occurring between blacks and whites. African Americans now began to demand equality and would not be suppressed by whites. One theme of the book‚ the

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