No Country for Old Men Chapter 1

Summary:

-The chapter begins with Sheriff Bell talking about one boy he has sent to the gas chamber 

  --"I thought I had never seen a person like that and it got me to wonderin if maybe he was some new kind." pg. 3

-It then proceeds into Chigurh's escape from jail by effortlessly killing the officer and then killing another man to commandeer his vehicle

--"If it looked like a thing he'd practiced many times it was." pg. 5

-Next Moss is introduced as he hunts antelope and then as he comes upon the scene of dead men, probably the result of a drug deal gone wrong; there was one man still barely alive begging for water

-Moss follows the tracks of another man and finds him dead, along with a case holding a lot of money (2.4 million)

--"His whole life was sitting there in front of him, Day after Day from dawn till dark, until he was dead." pg. 18

-Later that night Moss returns to the scene to bring that man some water

--"I'm fixin to do something dumber than hell but I'm goin anyways." pg. 24

--"His own shadow was more company than he would have liked. Ugly feeling out here. A trespasser. Among the dead." Pg. 25

-Moss finds the man is dead

-Other people show up and see Moss's truck and see him

-Moss is forced to run for his life

--"If you knew there was somebody out here afoot that had tow million dollars of your money, at what point would you quit looking for em?" Pg. 29

Interesting Points and Quotes:

-Language of the novel reflects the culture

-Thoughts and speech aren't really separated, no quotation marks are used

-Foreshadowing: " But he wasnt nothin compared to what was comin down the pike." pg.  4--> this quote from Sheriff Bell seems to indicate the disaster and terror to come in the plot

-Foreshadowing: "They say that eyes are windows to the soul...But there is another view of the world out there and other eyes to see it and that's where this is goin." pg. 4--> This quote from Sheriff Bell seems to foreshadow the changing of times and a theme of an individual's  view of, and purpose in life, in this developing world.

-Chigurh seems to be very cold and completely disregards human life--> tells the man to move just so he doesn't get blood on the car

-It will be interesting to see how Moss develops as the story unfolds and what choices and steps he must take now that people know he has the money