True Grit and Western Novels

Last week we read Pride and prejudice, a love story and this week it is a completely different topic!! True Grit is a very good story, that touches very deep and serious topics such as honor, determination, revenge and strength.

Another main difference is the way the story is narrated, in this novel Mattie Ross is the one narrating what is happening, it feels very personal in the story because  she narrates what happened to her when she was 14 years old. We see since the beginning that her character is very independent and strong minded. she has a mission and it is not a delicate one....her mission is to avenge her father's death. Since this we see that she had to grow up really fast and didn't have a very sweet and happy childhood.


Last week we read Pride and prejudice, a love story and this week it is a completely different topic!! True Grit is a very good story, that touches very deep and serious topics such as honor, determination, revenge and strength.

Another main difference is the way the story is narrated, in this novel Mattie Ross is the one narrating what is happening, it feels very personal in the story because  she narrates what happened to her when she was 14 years old. We see since the beginning that her character is very independent and strong minded. she has a mission and it is not a delicate one....her mission is to avenge her father's death. Since this we see that she had to grow up really fast and didn't have a very sweet and happy childhood.

The genre of this novel is Western. A genre is "a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style or subject matter".
Some of the characteristics that the western novels are:

• The villains are usually the indians. 
• There is usually a scene with a shooting involve, between "cowboys" and :indians" or other cowboys.
• It takes place in a Western location, such as a ranches or old towns.
• The cowboys hat are an iconic part of the main character. 
• The characters usually have guns as weapons. 
• The western movies romanticize the ideas of loyalty and virtue. 

Personally, I don't really see too much Western movies or read them. The closes experience I have with this genre is Little House on the Prairie, and the Zorro.