Response Chart

Greed, Reader Response

After reading the first two paragraphs I have noticed a lesson begin to appear, that lesson being not to be greedy.  In the first chapter the main character by the name of Llewellyn finds a brief case with 1 Million dollars inside.  Instead of doing what he should do and leave it where it is he decided to take it for himself.  This was Llewellyn's biggest mistake, he at that exact moment began a wild goose chase around the country, with him trying to survive, all because he took a brief case full of money that he thought would make his life better. 

Paragraph One Summary

The first paragraph of the novel No Country For Old Men, starts like most other novels of this kind.   The narrator is talking about the crimes, and travesties that are going to be committed in the novel.  After the small introduction the story starts, you learn about the first main character Llewellyn, laying prone in the desert somewhere near the US/Mexico boarder.  Llewellyn is glassing the area with his binoculars looking for a buck that he could shoot.  At this point he notices a circle of vehicles in the middle of the desert like skyline, Llewellyn at that point decides to move in closer to take a look.  As Llewellyn moves closer to the circle he glasses it with his binoculars once again and sees that there is no movement. At this point Llewellyn enters the circle and finds everyone dead, all shot by a machine gun.  After further investigation Llewellyn decides it is time to leave, but as he left the circle a blood marked trail catches his eye.  After following the trail for a while he notices a dead man leaning against a tree and a black brief case beside the body, when Llewellyn opened the case he sees something that will start all of his problems, the case was full of money, 1 million dollars worth. 

At this point the story jumped to a new location, and you see Chigurh in the police station with handcuffs on, the deputy is sitting in front of him in an office chair.  The deputy is describing to the sheriff what Chigurh had in his possession, "He had some kind of oxygen tank" he said.  While the deputy was talking on the phone Chigurh starts to move around, bringing his handcuffed hands in front of his body just waiting for the deputy to put down the phone.  To my amazement the deputy put down the phone and stood, and Chigurh made his move; hurling himself behind the deputy and chocking him with his handcuffs, after a short struggle the deputy was dead, and Chigurh took the keys for his cuffs, along with the deputies gun and car keys. 

Now that I have completed the first chapter I see how this book is, I am very interested and hope this interest continues for the remainder of the the book.