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Violence In Richard Moss's The Killing Of Moss

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This novel is consumed with all different types of violence but for the most part the violence in the novel is “personal”. This type of violence is different from the regular “shoot `em up” or non-personal violence because with “personal” violence people are singled out and killed or hurt for specific reasons whereas with the other type of violence people are just hurt and killed for no reason at all. This person involved in the non-personal violence just was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got hurt or killed for no reason at all. For example in the novel the killing of Moss was an example of “personal” violence because Moss was personally involved in the situation that got him killed. Moss was the one that stole “two point four million” …show more content…

When Moss stole the money he knew the chances of getting caught and dying but he took those chances because he was greedy and he wanted all of the money for himself, so it is not anyone else’s fault that he was killed except for his own. The fact that Chigurh was about to kill the man behind the counter because it was “fate” was very disturbing. This man had done nothing to Chigurh and he was also not involved in Moss’s plan to steal the money, which meant that this man had not done anything that made him deserve to die. Like previously stated no one deserves to be killed but someone involved in personal violence most likely did something bad which caused another person to want to kill them but a person who was involved in non-personal violence most likely did not have anything to do with what was going on, they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. From this the idea of non-personal violence is more disturbing to me than personal violence because in most cases the people involved in non-personal violence had nothing to do with what was going

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