True Grit
When books talk about the old west, it's mostly a cliche now. A protagonist wants to revenge, chase down the antagonist and defeat them with his amazing gun skills and falls in love with heroine and so. However, I feel like True Grit is something different from a common Western stories.
It is about a girl named Mattie, who wants to revenge for her father's death. This was the first part that interested me, because it's always been a man who wants to revenge for something. Second, I was amazed how Mattie is so tough for a 14 years old girl, so strongly willing to revenge for her father's death. It's not a love story (and I think she's way too young character to be used for love story), but shows a young girl who brings man's help to achieve her goal.
It's always been a man who takes the advantage of protagonist position in literature at that time, and we've thought it's natural thing. I feel like just changing the gender of character makes a whole lot of different story, and brings more different thoughts to the viewer. I feel like this could have been another cliche Western story if Mattie was a boy. However, by bringing a girl protagonist, we can have so many different perspective. Back at that time, Mattie is a girl who could have been married earlier, which would have been common life for most female by then, and never able to start the story. Even though girls back then was considered as weak and needs protection, Mattie never needed that but had strong determination to achieve her goal and making the male character to work with her, I think that's something amazing for an old literature. I wish to see more media that drives a female character because it's always interesting to see one.
It is about a girl named Mattie, who wants to revenge for her father's death. This was the first part that interested me, because it's always been a man who wants to revenge for something. Second, I was amazed how Mattie is so tough for a 14 years old girl, so strongly willing to revenge for her father's death. It's not a love story (and I think she's way too young character to be used for love story), but shows a young girl who brings man's help to achieve her goal.
It's always been a man who takes the advantage of protagonist position in literature at that time, and we've thought it's natural thing. I feel like just changing the gender of character makes a whole lot of different story, and brings more different thoughts to the viewer. I feel like this could have been another cliche Western story if Mattie was a boy. However, by bringing a girl protagonist, we can have so many different perspective. Back at that time, Mattie is a girl who could have been married earlier, which would have been common life for most female by then, and never able to start the story. Even though girls back then was considered as weak and needs protection, Mattie never needed that but had strong determination to achieve her goal and making the male character to work with her, I think that's something amazing for an old literature. I wish to see more media that drives a female character because it's always interesting to see one.
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