Theme: Who wins in the end?
Thesis 1: The head
Thesis 2: The heart
No matter how headstrong we become there will always be a time when we can't ignore our hearts.
Who will catch Tom Chaney?
The law
or Maddie
Lebeof embodying the head, the law, who fails time and time again at catching the bad guy.
Maddie embodying the heart, who convinces rooster to come on the trip, who won't give up, whose got to avenge her father's death.
And Rooster who is being won over by this girl. His heart even leads him to take the girl across many miles, losing his horse, and almost his life, for no payment.
While at the start, rooster along with everyone else, tries to take advantage and get money from maddie.
There is the line about "an act that is wrong in itself and an act that is wrong because of the laws and mores of man." This is the argument in other words. What is wrong because we intellectualize and write it down and what is wrong because we just feel it is wrong. We can't put feelings into words sometimes. We just know it.
Maddie's dark revenge is heart, is emotion and it will not stop at anything until it achieves it's goal. While the law will give up, reason with itself, say it's no use. The heart doesn't reason, it drives, it strives, it is the ultimate engine.
Protag - Maddie Trickster - Tom Channey
Mentor
Dark mentor
Attractor -
Dark Attractor -
Sidekick -
Dark Sidekick -
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