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Jul 15, 2024 · After clearing the cabin of Quincy and Moon, Rooster devises a plan to deal with the rest of Ned Pepper's gang and Tom Chaney: Mattie What do we do now? Rooster We wait. They ride up, what we want is to get them all in the dugout. I will kill the last one to go in and then we will have them in a barrel.
LaBoeuf. A hard-drinking, one-eyed U.S. marshal known for his “grit.”. Rooster fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, though Mattie learns that he was part of Quantrill’s Raiders, a group of guerilla soldiers who used ruthless tactics to fight the Union and devolved into gangs of outlaws that included Frank and Jesse James.
Apr 25, 2022 · The film's climax finds Rooster single-handedly charging Lucky Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) and his gang on horseback while Mattie holds Tom Chaney at gunpoint with her father's pistol atop a ...
Aug 27, 2024 · [Mattie pulls the trigger as a response and shoots Chaney in the ribcage. The recoil knocks her back and she falls down, while Chaney falls down onto the sand on the river as well.] Chaney: I didn't think you'd do it! Rooster: [From the top of the hill] Sis! Where are you! Mattie: I'm down here! I got Chaney! Chaney: I just didn't think you'd ...
Charles Portis. True Grit: Chapter 6 Summary & Analysis. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in True Grit, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf ride long past “dinnertime,” but Mattie tries hard not to complain. Finally, they stop at a small store on the river, where they have ...
Chaney tries to grab a big piece of wood, and Mattie tries to shoot him again but her gun won't fire. Her percussion caps were bad or something—don't ask us. Chaney throws the wood at Mattie, knocks her down, then runs across the stream to smack her around a little before hauling her back across the creek, grabbing two horses as he runs.
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Remembering Rooster. Mattie tries to keep tabs on Rooster over the years, and the ending includes a rough sketch of his life (see his "Character Analysis" for more). We gather that, like the rest of his life, it was rough and hard. But we can't really tell how she feels about him until we learn that she moves his body: "I had Rooster's body ...
