Monday, October 1, 2012
High Noon
Most of the town was against Kane's position to fight Frank Miller when he came to town. A few of the arguments they made were good arguments. The best one I heard was in the church. It was when the guy gave the speech on how the government was almost ready to send the town money to build factories and businesses. If there was a fight in the streets then the government wouldn't want to send them money. I think that this is a very good argument. At the same time, however, I believe that when Frank got there, they wouldn't be able to let him come without a fight. From what we heard about him in the movie, I had the idea that he was a criminal and that's how he brought all the business to the hotel and the bar. If this is true, then the fact that the government would send them money if there wasn't a fight is false. They still wouldn't send them money because there'd be crime in the town. I'd say that in this case, one fight in the streets leaving four criminals dead in the street is better than just letting them come in to town and with them, bring a bunch of criminal activity.
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Very excellently reasoned. This is precisely the counter-argument I would make if I had the chance. The town's just looking for an excuse to get out of fighting him, but although their fear is justified, they should have stepped up and done the right thing.
ReplyDeleteYou writing continues to work very well. If you were to push yourself further and write even better, you could look for ways to join sentences together while subordinating ideas (making some less important than others). For example
"Most of the town was against Kane's position to fight Frank Miller when he came to town. A few of the arguments they made were good arguments."
could be
"Only a few of the arguments the townspeople made when they argued against Kane's plan to fight Frank Miller were good arguments."
This new arrangement focuses on the quality of the arguments while making the context less important (since we already know the basic plot).
But if Frank Miller undid all of the towns reputation about not having much crime would keep government money flowing into the town?
ReplyDeleteDylan and Evan, I really don't think it's the government that will be giving them money, but rather it's new settlers being scared to move into the town. The biggest "handout" a Western town might expect to get in those days would have come from the railroad building a rail stop in the town. In those days, whole towns actually picked up and moved to be closer to rail lines, and towns changed their names in order to attract railroads and settlers. Ever wonder why there's a Garden City in the middle of nowhere?
ReplyDeleteThis has been your history lesson for today.