Monday, 16 April 2012
Titles: The most important part
Every novel in the world has a title, and that title is the first thing the possible reader sees. The moment a good reader picks up a book and reads they are making assumptions of what they believe the story will be about. When I heard the title No Country For Old Men, i instantly thought about the way older people act. The fact that their ways are nothing like those of today, they are not into electronics and they know how to live without assistance. I then thought about their ways of dealing with problems, even from looking at my father I see that he would rather deal with a problem his own way, instead of using the authorities. He is independent and he likes to deal with things his own way. Knowing those few facts i made the prediction that the story would be about a problem (the money being stolen as i later learned) and the way that problem would be solved without authorities. As i look back now this prediction is some what right, but I do not picture the characters as being old, they all seem to have a young way about them that makes the novel have a more technologically advanced way of dealing with the problem, but still using no authorities.
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