Response to ATPH prompts

The best prompt is quarter rose's idea prompt..

Idea: How does McCarthy's portrayal of the modern western myth compare and contrast to the typical idea associated with the "American western myth"

I think this would be a good prompt to write because it relates the novel to other sources of literature and events. This helps us draw connections between the novel and related stories. McCarthy does follow many of the western myth ideas with his characters, like Blevins. Blevins epitomizes the western myth and the free spirited hero. The image of John Grady riding off into the sun at the end of the novel is also related to the western myth and image. He does not settle down and stay in a town, but rather he searches for adventure and the next frontier. In most western myth stories, the main character usually returns home to solve the problem, but in this novel John Grady only passes through his hometown, realizing it is not where he is too stay. There are many other things that can be writen about this prompt and many ideas that can be explored.