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Llewellyn Moss Character Analysis

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After reading the entire novel it is easy for readers to grasp the fact that Llewellyn Moss is a very dynamic character. At many different times in the novel Moss use some characteristics that contradict some of his other characteristics. In the very first chapter readers get their first description of Moss, and this is also where readers develop their first impression of him. From what is said about Moss in the first chapter readers are able to form their own opinion about what kind of person he is. For example, when Moss was in the desert and he shot the deer but did not kill it “He leaned [over] and spat. Damn, he said” (10). From this readers are able to infer that Moss did not care that he had wounded the deer and that it was hurt all …show more content…

Continuing in the chapter readers encounter more acts by Moss that furthers their character traits of him. For example, Moss comes to a point in the desert where he sees a dog suffering that “had a huge head and cropped ears and it was limping badly”, but even after seeing this Moss “lowered his glasses and stood watching it go” (11). This carries on the idea that Moss is selfish and he has no empathy for other things, because he would rather watch an animal continue to suffer instead of putting them out of their misery, because if he were to put them out of their misery it might mess up his hunting trip by scaring the other animals away by the sound of his gun shot. After Moss saw the dog through the binoculars he continued to look and eventually saw a few trucks out in the distance. Moss being the curious person that he is decided to approach the trucks and when he did he found bullet holes on the side of the trucks and a few dead men. After Moss searched the trucks and spoke to the one man who was still barley alive he decided to follow a blood trail rather than deciding to help the dying man

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