re: No Country question

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In the book, it's a hawk, i believe.

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Yes, it is. It makes for an interesting contrast with a scene earlier in the book. Sheriff Bell finds the body of a red-tailed hawk in the road and stops to move it to a grassy patch on the side. Even though the hawk is a predator it's not an evil one and Bell showed respect for it. Chigurh comes across a hawk and sees a predator and dislikes it for operating in his terrain. Or because it's a predator and yet not evil. In any case he misses it. Probably because the hawk hasn't done anything to deserve it. Pretty much everybody that Chigurh kills as brought it on themselves in some way. Carla Jean is the interesting one. Maybe you could argue that she did. Or maybe she was not supposed to be fair game for Chigurh and he was hit by the car almost immediately afterwards for overstepping his limits.

Or maybe it's just a random hawk.

Cormac McCarthy put some serious undertones in the book, I've listened to it at least 10 times on driving trips and am still not tired of it.