ESPN. The film is directed and narrated by Steve James a 55 year old white man that’s from Hampton, Va. Steve James’s film is a retrospective film about his home town’s most famous and controversial athlete Allen Iverson and a trial that divided the city of Hampton, Va. The film focuses on two events the first event was a brawl that took place in February of 1993 in a bowling alley. According to witnesses a group of young black men who included Allen Iverson got into an altercation with white patrons

Northrop Frye’s theory of patterns in literature can be found in all of literature, in particular, Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Frye specifically notes that the "story of the loss and regaining of identity is[...]the framework of all literature". This theory is found in different ways in multiple characters within the novel No Country for Old Men. The handful of characters all go about one idea that Frye mentions, "For constructing any work of art you need some principle of repetition

anything like that. He’s not like you. He’s not even like me” (Coen Brothers No Country). Chigurh’s peculiar moral code excuses criminal offenses such as murder,

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a timeless novel pertaining to the changing of generations. One of the reasons that the story is still widely known comes from the constant change in generations whether the reader is part of the older or younger generation at the time they read the story. Even though multiple audiences believe McCarthy’s novel contains abstract ideas, the novel actually uses technology to display the change in generations through, brief conversations, consistent gun usage

the wrong decision has the most impactful consequence often requiring a timely solution. One must recognize the consequence of actions one commits in order to effectively understand the magnitude of the outcome. In Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men, one of the novels protagonists, Llewelyn Moss demonstrates the result of failing to correct the error of his ways resulting in his family’s untimely demise. It begins when he makes a reckless decision out of greed which greatly impacts

often a layer of thematic writing that the author placed for the more astute in their reading audience, and Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is no exception. Throughout the novel, McCarthy succeeds in expertly lacing his compelling narrative with symbolic language, thematic tones, and a deeper meaning that those who wish to may uncover. Through the reading No Country, one is able to see such literary elements as the personification of evil, the permanence of sin, a corruption of the common

Strategies of Mis-en-scene in The Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men The Coen Brother’s films are always created in a particular way; a way that makes you look and think extra hard about what’s being presented, and how even the simplest of visuals and presentations could be connected to a broader picture or idea. Through their creation of films, the Coen Brother’s craft an unequitable mis-en-scene that captures the audience and draws them into the film itself unlike any other picture can. Through

“Never expect justice in the world. That is not part of God’s plan,” Orson Welles wrote in his script for The Dreamers. This attitude toward life can be witnessed in Cormac McCarthy’s neo-western, No Country for Old Men. In it, Terrell County Sheriff, Ed Tom Bell, struggles to keep up with a changing society where his faith in justice is overcome by the world’s increasing violence and corruption. Overall, Sheriff Bell, the embodiment of justice in his county, was eventually deterred by his lack of