Monday, November 8, 2010
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.
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Bell is Ed Tom. Ed Tom Bell....
ReplyDeleteAnd the war was Vietnam
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