9/20/16 Blog #1:Kirk Brown

At the start of class Mr.Rivers put the word Intertextuality up on

the board.  So after talking in our groups to figure out the meaning (Or just looking up the definition on google). We broke the word down into it’s roots.

We broke down the word down into 3 parts inter which we said means inside or between like in interstellar intertwine , text which represents words and in this case mostly literature, and uality that shows it's a noun. So we determined the definition is "how different text relate to one another." After doing that we went back to chart that asks what film and literature do and how they do it. We already learned the how for film Mise-en-scene Is how something is done so now we are trying to see the "how" in literature, so we read the first 2 chapter of No Country for Old Men, and then were to answer the questions What is it doing? How is it doing it? We read the first chapter as a class, this chapter was told from the first person perspective of the sheriff, then we read the 2nd chapter aloud in our own groups and used this to answer the question. My group made two sentences one of my group's answer were: The 2nd chapter of No Country for old men develops Chigurh by demonstrating his murderous actions and displays his ruthlessness by showing the uncaring reaction he has to the killing of multiple men in very violent ways. This is shown when he makes the comment "I just didn't want you to get blood on the car". Showing the ruthlessness or demonstrating the murderous actions of Chigurh is what the text is showing, and the book uses his brutal way of killing and his comments to add to the character development of Chigurh himself.