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True Grit Literary Analysis

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Vengeances Is Mines In the novel True Grit, Charles Portis makes a character named Rooster Cogburn. The character Portis makes a unique identity. Rooster is a unique kind of man because of his past as a criminal and now a marshal. Rooster Cogburn is a one of a kind character as a result of his bad history showed him how to kill. Likewise, Rooster is caring and has a connection to Mattie. Portis gives us as readers to see the two sides of Rooster, his cold side and his caring side with regards to Mattie.
Mattie Ross is the storyteller of the True Grit story. Mattie is a fourteen-year-old young lady who is determined to get vengeance on Tom Chaney who slaughtered her dad. She chooses the meanest and hardest U.S. marshal named Rooster Cogburn. Mattie was so happy with the marshal; she picked she said he had True Grit. Mattie and Rooster were joined by Laboeuf who is a Texas Ranger …show more content…

" The meanest one is Rooster Cogburn. He is a pitiless man, dough tough, and fear doesn't enter into his thinking. He loves to pull corks"(21). The sheriff is one of the people in town who thinks this of Rooster. Some fear him because of his criminal past, and he has also been the marshals for years. " I was surprised when an old one-eye jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn"(48). The brief description that Mattie gives about Rooster gives the reader the assumption that Rooster also looks mean and ruthless.
Rooster attachment to Mattie Is like a fatherly bond. He wants to make sure she is okay and does not want to put her in danger. But Mattie never listens to Rooster in that made him very overprotected over Mattie. " No, I don’t believe I will. Put your switch away, Laboeuf. She has got the best of us"(143). Rooster stands up for Mattie and shows that he cares by going against Laboeuf wishes to continue to spank Mattie. He soon started calling Mattie sis and standing up for her

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