True Grit By Charles Portis

Later on the story Mattie experiences her grandfather?s death, which taught her to stand up for herself. After all of the hardships that Mattie and Grandfather faced out on their own, they came back to a Philadelphia very unalike the one they had left, and their coffeehouse home was no different. It was completely robbed of almost everything and shards of glass were everywhere. Although this did not stop two thieves from coming in and killing grandfather when he tried to fight back. Mattie did not take this well however. After Grandfather fainted, she gashed the robber?s shoulder with her granddad?s sword which sent him running down the street with Mattie chasing him close behind. This event clearly shows that Mattie learned to stand up for herself against higher authority, which is a big part of adulthood.

In the book Mattie is definitely a strong character. When Taylor meets Mattie she is surprised. Back in Pittman, where Taylor is from a woman would never own and run a tire store all by herself. Mattie may not be gaining much

Mattie is past the threshold and ready to take on the unknown world. In a hero’s journey it states “as the initiate goes deeper into the unknown, she puts herself more and more at risk, emotionally and physically…. The initiate faces a series of challenges or temptations (51 Harris and Thompson). This begins when, she catches up to the two men she says, “He pulled me from the saddle and threw me to

Mattie does not beat around the bush when it comes to justice. She has a fixed view on how law should be carried out against Tom Chaney and stops at nothing to achieve this. Put simply, Mattie wants him dead, and she wants him to know that he is dying as a result of him killing her father. This view and interpretation of justice closely resembles the “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” philosophy of the Code of Hammurabi where the life of Tom Chaney must be payed for

Creed, is a movie that performances by Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson, Apollo Creed’s son, Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, and Tessa Thompson as Bianca was directed by Ryan Coogler. Adonis Johnson, who is the son of former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, was living in the youth facility when Mary Anne, Creed’s widow visited him and decided to adopt him. Adonis work as a professional, but he was not satisfied with his current life. Mary Anne was so disappointed with him because Adonis’s father passed away in the ring, and she did not want Adonis to follow his dad’s step. Despite the fact that he wanted to pursue his dream to work as a professional fighter, he gave up his current job and went to Philadelphia. He found Rocky Balboa there and he requested Balboa to become his mentor and trained him. In the process of becoming a professional fighter, Adonis went through challenges. Even though Adonis faces challenges in life, he overcomes them because he never gives up.

One literary element the author uses is setting. True Grit takes place in the Wild West. The Wild West setting is known to be a place with a significant amount of crime and drama, and Fort Smith is an example of a Wild West location. Fort Smith was surely not a place for an average 14-year-old girl. Even Mattie Rosses Lawyer said this in the book. “Fort Smith is no place for a young girl alone, not even a ‘Mattie’.” (Portis 78). Living in a dangerous city like Fort Smith may be impossible for an average 14 year old girl, but not for Mattie. Mattie Ross proves him wrong and survives the dangerous place. She built up her strength and level of maturity in the town. She sold horses for $325, watched three people get hanged to death, lived with a random old lady and hired a Marshal, that she had never met in her life, to help her kill Tom Chaney. Charles Portis uses the setting of the story to show us the struggles and hardships Mattie had to go through in Fort Smith. He portrayed that a small girl that can live in a town like Fort Smith is no match for evil bandits and murderers.

Mattie is now in the initiation step of the journey, where she will go through four parts; the first part is the challenges and the second is the abyss. Anywhere that Mattie went she faced challenges as how the hero’s journey’s writes, “Whichever direction the voyage takes… [she] puts [herself] more and more at risk, emotionally and physically…. always seem to strike the initiate’s greatest weakness: [her] poorest skills… [Her] most vulnerable emotions” (Harris and Thompson 51). A challenge that we see Mattie puts herself at risk and show her weakness is when see faces Tom Chaney and says,

While on the hunt for Tom Chaney, her father's killer, Mattie faced adversity in the face when she lost her arm, but for her sake, it was worth it. Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf were on Tom's trail while chasing him through the woods and they finally caught up to him in the woods in the final battle scene. Earlier that morning, Mattie had shot Tom, winging him, but not killing him and he then took her back to Lucky Ned Pepper's gang's hideout. Later that afternoon, when Mattie shot him, the backspring of the gun knocked her into a pit of snakes and bats where she ended up breaking her arm and getting bitten by a rattler, but Tom Chaney was dead in the end. All though Mattie eventually had to get her arm aputated, losing her arm was definiteley

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True Grit is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl named Mattie Ross. Mattie Ross was always advising her father, Frank, to buy the ponies low and sell high. Frank set off with his hired hand, Tom Chaney to buy some ponies. Along the way, Chaney made an unwise decision to get drunk, gamble away his paycheck, and then try to get the money back. In effort to stop this mess, Frank was shot by the cowardly, Tom Chaney, in the town of Fort Smith, Arkansas. After receiving the news, Mattie understands what she must do. She then decides to go on a mission to search for Tom Chaney and finally get her revenge. She understands that she cannot do this alone, so she decides to hire a U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn to go on this journey with her. They then ran into a Texas Ranger, LaBoeuf, who was also down to murder Tom Chaney. Along the way, Mattie faces many challenges and overcomes obstacles. She learns more about the other’s personality and begins to earn respect towards them. At the beginning of the journey, she did not know whether she could trust them. As the story moved along and she learned more about them, she slowly began to trust them. She also gained the respect from Cogburn and LaBoeuf. They believed that she was incapable of going on

Mattie displays another characteristic of a femme fatale in the sense that she becomes a woman where both males in the story are frequently fighting for her recognition. Instances such as LeBeouf claiming that while he was “watching [Mattie], [he] gave some thought to stealing a kiss” (Coen). The femme fatale is not often won over by love or lust of any characters. Mattie, even when presented by these two beaus, stays very independent. This is reinforced by Portis’ novel where Mattie proclaims that she never really worried about marriage. “I never had the time to get married but it is nobody’s business if I am married or not married…A woman with brains and a frank tongue and one sleeve pinned up and an invalid mother to care for is at

True Grit is a Novel about a girl, Mattie Ross, who is only fourteen. Mattie has bad blood with the man who murder her father, and she seeks avenge for her late father. Mattie leaves home with little money in her pocket to start her journey to West, but on the way, she met up with Rooster Cogburn, the meanest Marshal around. Mattie believe that Rooster has true grit, and that is way she chooses Rooster to join her in getting revenge for her father. Mattie also happens to fortunately meet Le Boeuf on the way meeting Rooster. The three of them set out to the west to seek revenge. If Mattie Ross was written as a young boy instead of a young girl, the novel True Grit would have a completely different point of view. The relationship with Rooster

True Grit begins with Mattie Ross, a 14 year-old girl, who is determined to track down the murderer of her father. After receiving her father’s corpse at Fort Smith, Mattie decided to stay alone to find someone to help persecute the murderer, Tom Chaney. Finding out that he has escaped to the Indian

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