For she has set her sights on Rooster Cogburn, the meanest Federal marshal there is, to accompany her to find the fugitive who has fled into dangerous Indian territory. For a fourteen year old, she has determination and savvy that reluctantly, and grudgingly, earns her respect. When his daughter Mattie travels across Arkansas to claim her father’s body, she makes it her business to find Chaney and get justice for her father’s murder. How could I say no?įrank Ross, on a trip to buy horses, is shot by his employee Tom Chaney and robbed. That alone would have pushed me to read a book in a genre I don’t normally reach out for but also serendipitously I found out my 8 year old nephew had borrowed the book off his best friend and now wanted to lend it to me. One of the main reasons I wanted to read True Grit by Charles Portis is that Donna Tartt has written an introduction about how much she loves the book. Set in the 1870s, its a Western that stirs the imagination as it is full of iconic images and scenes: whisky-swilling lawmen, a Bible quoting pill of a girl, gunfights and blazes of glory.People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. He attaches himself to the posse and the story becomes as much about the dynamics between the three as it is about the actual manhunt. The contract between Mattie Ross and Rooster Cogburn is complicated by the arrival of a vainglorious Texas Ranger by the name of LaBoeuf (pronounced "la beef") who is himself searching for the same man as Mattie and Cogburn.
Cogburn is mercenary, hard drinking and, unscrupulous in his work ethics - at once displaying the "true grit" required to get the job done and causing uneasiness among those who are trying to re-establish and define law and order in the wake of the Civil War.
Strong-willed, self-righteous and determined not to be cheated of the fees she is willing to pay the marshal, Mattie Ross insists on joining Rooster Cogburn on the search.
The story is about a fourteen-year old girl who hires a federal marshal to pursue the murderer of her father into the Indian Country of Oklahoma.
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