The Last Post!.. on only the last four pages..

It Begins as always about Lamar's thoughts and recollections. This one is where he knows that he owes his wife so much. He also told a little girl that was trying to act as a reporter that the crime problems are caused by the dealers and buyers of drugs, whether the buyer is a lawyer or a hobo.He also is concerned with the way old people look as if they have no idea of that got to be where they are today. After leaving his last day at work he realizes he has a bitter feeling because he had been defeated. In the last chapter it is just Lamar's thoughts on what I believe is the legacy he'll leave behind. he compares what he wants to do to a man that had made a stone water trough over 200 years ago. It seems like he wants to do some thing that will stand the test of time. He also talks about how he wishes he thought about his father more. How his father had been a great horse breaker and seller. He said that he was probably a better man than his father however bad it is to say. The Novel ends when he retells a dream he had of his dad. They were riding on horseback through a dark passage in the mountains and his dad pulled ahead of him with a horn of fire leading the way. Lamar knew, "That he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there." I would recommend this book to anyone interested as it is a really easy read and a good book. It does get confusing at times but most of it clears up in time.

The Post Before The Last One

Chapter 10 starts with Lamar's thoughts on the previous conversation in the last post. He says that it always ate at him. He is giving up on finding God as he has waited "eighty some-odd" years for him to come into his life. He had tried to live in such a strict way that nothing he did would ever eat at him like his decision in the war. He also talks about the way he has little idea of what the world is nowadays comparing himself to one of his grandparents, Harold who died in the first World War. Next Bell gets a call about Chigurh and he questions 2 boys that had been at the accident after the murder of Carla. Lamar finds out that the boys had been given a hundred dollar Bill for a shirt and to say that they don't know what he looked like. The one boy confesses it but the other, David DeMarco is less cooperative. Chapter 11 begins with Lamar in his visit to Moss' parents. His dad talks about how Moss had been a sniper in Vietnam and wasn't the same after. He then describes his last day on the job. He describes his attempt to save the boy in Huntsville by testifying in court, although he knew it'd probably do no good. After the trial and as the boy sat on death row he talked to him about how he was sorry and that he thought he was innocent. The boy then confesses to the crime basically in a manor that says that he would commit the same cold blooded murder again. Then it is not in his thoughts anymore but about Bell heads out to find his wife on horseback in the fields. He finds her and sat down with her talking watching the sunset and the doves.

Post 8?

Lamar described how the drug dealers and police officers have no respect for the law. These people that have no regard for others and get rich off of narcotics disgust him. Moss talks to the girl that he picked up to drive him and gives her money as she is planning on going somewhere and starting over. She is thankful for what he gives her and Moss really shows a compassionate part of him as he helps the girl and tries to give her some advice. The Men and the barracuda come back for a carwash somewhere, Balmorhea. Moss luck runs out as the next part of the chapter really is anticlimactic. Sheriff Bell arrived at the motel in Van Horn at the crime scene where there are the bodies of Moss and the girl. He also sees the black Barracuda in the parking lot. Chigurh goes back to the motel when nobody is there and steals the suitcase of money. Bell discovers this and this part even towards the end of the story still is confusing as it describes Chigurh seeing sheriff Lamar pull in but then Lamar searches all the cars as a result of the grille of the vent being removed. I thought wow now they're going to catch Chigurh but alas no as this couldn't be made a little less complicated with all of the constant flashes in point of view. The next chapter begins with Lamar explaining how he wanted to tell Carla that the Moss had not been with the girl that they had found dead and that she had just been a 15 year-old runaway. Then he describes his efforts in what it seems like him trying to find whoever was responsible for killing Carla and after her mother had passed away. Then it goes to Chigurh giving a very wealthy man the bag of money. Next is Carla at her mother's funeral and as she returns from it Chigurh is there sitting in her room. He obviously is planning to kill her. Chigurh tells her that it is a promise he made to her husband, which he did when on Wells phone, he promised to kill her if Moss wouldn't return the money to him. She repeats that she never did anything to deserve this and he tells her that it was alll just bad luck. He then takes a coin out, flips it then catches it, and asks her to call it. She picks heads and it turns up tails. Bad luck. He describes how it is not luck it is every choice she ever made and each one leading her to this moment. How he has to because the forces of destiny have led him to this point where he must shoot her and he did. Next is yet another anticlimactic twist. The man Chigurh who, throughout the whole story, had been portayed as this invincible force, an unstoppable evil, is hit by a Buick that ran an intersection.he hurts his arm badly and other body parts as well but he leaves the scene. Next it goes to an old man, Ellis, Ed Tom, Lamar. I don't know why there are so many names for these people figuring that out seriously took some digging back into the earlier parts of the book.  Lamar is retired, deaf, and has an infection in one of his eyes. They talk about regrets and their grandparent. By the way after there talking bout grandparent you finally find out the Lamar is Sheriff Bell's uncle. Lamar tells Bell that his greatest regret was leaving his men behind in some war maybe WW2, I'm not completely sure, but he also got a bronze star for the action.

So Now Its Post 7

Lamar believes that the next generation is going to be bad. He sees the future with impending violence and pessimism as the generation take things for-granted and have trouble growing up. I can't help but agree with him in that as times pass, the newer generations lose sight of what is important. He also talks about his wife Loretta and how she helps feed the jailed. So now Chigurh was wounded in the firefight and has a large hole in his leg. He gets medicals supplies from a co-op and blows the *stuff* out of the front of a pharmacy using a car and some gas to get antibiotics and other medicinal drugs. After he tends to his wounds for 5 days he leaves the motel and drove to another one. Bell stood contemplating on whether or not to commit suicide, but for a reason I don't know something I'm guessing about a woman as he said, "She is worth it". Just another odd moment that loses meaning as there is not much to go on to deduce a meaning. Wells then makes his way to where Chigurh is located and Chigurh follows him up the stairs with a shogun to Wells back and they talked about Wells' life before Chigurh shot him in the face with his shotgun. Again I have to question why Wells had firstly gone to meet Chigurh, was it planned or not, and why didn't he come more prepared as he repeatedly stated how he knew Chigurh was going to kill him before his death in the motel. While Moss is in the hospital, there is a moment in the book that really shows the slight humor this author incorporates into a book while keeping the feel of the character. "They turned at the end of the bay and started back. The sweat stood on his forehead. Andale, she said. Que bueno. He nodded. Damn right bueno, he said." He called his wife and told her to go to a motel and then called wells but got Chigurh who told him that he was going after his wife. The next chapter starts off once again with Lamar talking about how the world is going to hell. How the main problems in school have gone from chewing gum, talking in class, and running in the halls, to rape, murder, and arson. This makes me think to how my school although it has problems, many problems, really isn't that bad compared to some places where these things really are common. The chapter then goes to Chigurh where he kills the man who had hired Wells strategically using birdshot to avoid the glass behind the man from falling into the streets. Carla Jean and her mother left the house and headed for El Paso Texas. Chigurh broke into Carla's mother's house after they had left and found another phone bill. Moss bought a gun and a car after he picked up the suitcase on a long river road and then got a hitchhiker to drive the car for him. Carla Jean told Bell where Moss had called fomr as long as no harm would come to him because of it. The chapter end vaguely as the author gives no names or any real description to two men who leave in a black Plymouth Barracuda with a sub-machine gun. The only thing you can get out of them is that they're most likely Mexican as they spoke in Spanish

Post 6 - chapter 4 and 5ish

Sheriff Lamar talks about his grandpa being a sheriff and how his wife is a good person. Sheriff Lamar sees the world changing for the worse. The way he talks about people not taking into account the good things that happen in life and focusing on the bad things that happen to them for "no reason". Now there are 10 people dead including Wyrick the people by the trucks and the deputy. Sheriff Bell and Wendell are also tracking down where Moss is and wonder if he knows about the kind of people after him. This crime brings alot of attention to the town and members from border patrol, the DEA, one specifically McIntyre who helps Bell and Wendell clean up and note the crime scene evidence, and reporters come for it. Chigurh pans out to be a cold killer. The man isn't stupid and won't cause a scene, as to avoid being caught, but he would kill a man that he just met and even tries to kill a bird that he sees while waiting a night out in a car. Moss proves to be a rather clever person as he uses metal poles, coat hangers, and duct tape to fashion an instrument to reach the suitcase of money, hidden in the vent system from a few rooms away. He left directly after. Chigurh found out where Moss had been and he broke into the 1st room in which the suit case had been hidden in the duct. Chigurh killed 2 men, Mexicans, in the room who i presume had been looking for Moss also. There's some instances in the book not just these 2 chapters that make little sense as i read them. There is little relevance but i guess they are there for some reason of character identity.The next part confuses me again as Moss does another thing i just didn't plainly get. Moss finds a receiver that Chigurh had been using to track him. He puts it in the bathroom and turns on the shower but waits for him. When he has the opportunity, he should've shot him but instead he has Chigurh throw his shotgun on the bed and then Moss ran down the stairs and out the front of the hotel. He ends up getting shot and crosses a bridge into Mexico. Chigurh kills a few men but one is in such a manner that portrays Chigurh as a monster as Chigurh makes this man look at him as Chigurh shoots him in the forehead. This firefight is made much more complicated than it could've been. The way the author uses pronouns and groups so many people together as Mexicans does a significant amount to make me wonder who is being shot and who is doing the shooting. Lamar in the next chapter talks about matters of truth and his history. He also talks about the people that don't do anything until it is too blatantly obvious to leave it alone. Bell visited Carla Jean, moss's wife, but got little information out of her. A new Character Mr.Wells is introduced and seems to be a man of high ranking. He knows Mr.Chigurh well and is hunting him down. Still i feel like more could be concluded about him if the manner in which the author writes wasn't so vague. Wells is a hit man that visits Moss, who is now in a hospital. He wants the money that wells took to return to his client. Wells seems as though hes trying to help him.

Half-Way There Post

As the time passes and technology becomes more advanced both the bad guys and the good guys have access to it so it doesn't benefit the sheriffs. This is what the character's thoughts are in the beginning of chapter 3. He then goes on to describe the execution of a man that had committed murder. He is still concerned over the change in the amount of dangerous and immoral crimes in his region and talk about how the previous Sheriffs hadn't even carried firearms. He also talks about the job of a sheriff and the power that he holds as the man that enforces and has to somewhat make the laws. I'm starting now to suspect that the man who's thoughts are in the beginning of the chapters is Lamar. The next part of the chapter is Moss saying good bye to his wife. After that it goes to Sheriff Bell being interrupted by a phone call right before he was going to eat dinner. A car fire was reported and when he arrives there, it is the car, a 77 ford, that Chigurh had taken from the deputy that was burning. The next day, Bell and Wendell, who is also called Winston, search around the burnt ford and upon examination of the tire tracks, start looking to the east of the car. They find Moss' truck and wonder if he's dead but doubt suspicion of him being part of the drug deal. Thye continue searching and find the rest of the vehicles and dead men and reason that there was an incident involving Mexican drug dealers and missing money. Next it follows Chigurh trying to find Moss. Chigurh searches Moss' trailer and takes some mail but decides to go to the office and ask where Llewelyn is and after he couldn't get an answer he tried dialing the numbers of phone calls that Moss had made according to the phone bill that he had taken. He called two numbers one of which he got an answer but never got any information on Moss' whereabouts except that he had been in Sanderson. The other place that he had called was in Del Rio and that was where the next section is, as it follows Moss'. Moss stays in a motel called the trail motel first hiding his money and his gun. The next day he goes to the town and gets supplies and upon returning he believes someone is in or has been in his room. So he books a room at the Ramada and gets more supplies, one of which was a shotgun and returns to his room. He fashions his shotgun into a sawed-off with a pistol grip then went and got some clothes.

Post numero cuatro

In this next chapter the conspiring events develop into what appears to be the main storyline. So now the chapter begins with Sheriff Bell, making things more confusing. He is answering the phone to a Mrs. Downie who is in distress because her cat is in a tree and won't come down. After he convinces her that if she leaves the cat alone it will come down he gets a call over the radio. This one is slightly more important. This call is from a man called Torbert and there is something to do with a man dead in a trunk of a car. This gets very confusing as there seems to be some form of plot going on that they know of previously, as the sheriff comes with another man, Wendell,  and the three, Wendell, Bell, and Torbert talk about how Torbert needs to leave and take Lamar's unit back to Sonora. They also talk about the dead man who they know to be Bill Wyrick but they must treat the body as if they don't know him. When Bell arrives at the Sheriff's office in Sonora there is yellow tape is this office is the crime scene at the beginning of the book where the deputy is killed by Chigurh. Now the setting becomes more clear as the station that Bell went to is Lamar's from the beginning of the book and Lamar is the sheriff of Sonora who the deputy had called before he was killed. So now I'm rather certain that Moss was not the sheriff in the beginning of the story. In the story Sheriff Bell is also called Ed Tom by Lamar. As they talk they describe the deputy as a clean-cut 23 year-old  boy and that they believe this upcoming conflict is of a nature they haven't seen before. This cleared up the conflict slightly for me but other than Chigurh, I'm not sure who is good and who is bad in the novel. The chapter is broken into segments according to the characters in it. Moss returns to his home after a taxi ride has dinner and takes a shower. During dinner he tells his wife, who constantly asked him about his wounds, to go to Odessa and stay with her mother. He also must have managed to get the plates off his truck before he returned home. Chigurh questions a man at a local gas station about when he closes and flips a coin to determine whether to shoot the man or not. The proprietor of the station does not get the situation and even when he picks ticks and gets heads on the coin, he still doesn't get it. This shows how little Chigurh cares about who he kills and where he kills them. He then traveled to the place where the Broncos where and inspects the trucks and kills the two men that were still alive. This Chapter still left questions about who's who and the motivation behind characters actions but the main conflict seems to be coming into focus.