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Write 13 page essay on the topic COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE DEPICTION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF AGE IN THE FOLLOWING NOVELS: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN AND NOTES ON A SCANDAL.It follows the efforts and failure of

Write 13 page essay on the topic COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE DEPICTION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF AGE IN THE FOLLOWING NOVELS: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN AND NOTES ON A SCANDAL.

It follows the efforts and failure of the fiftiesh Sheriff Ed Tom Bell to protect a younger Llewellyn Moss and his wife from the assassins (mainly Anton Chigurh) sent after him to recover the drug money he picked from the desert. Both novels are totally different in genre and both tackle the issue of age and its significance in human perspectives differently.

In the novel Notes on a Scandal (2003) the main protagonist is Barbara Covett, is a schoolteacher and a spinster. Barbara is a woman used to living a solitary life, as she has no close friends and no family.&nbsp. She is only just tolerated by her less brilliant and caustic colleagues who know zilch about her personal life which consists mostly of taking care of Portia, her old cat, and spending innumerable hours alone. Barbara is neither a trustworthy nor an impartial first-person narrator. A lonely, spinster in her early sixties, she is keen to find a special, close friend. Yet, she reveals that she has been incapable to make an earlier friendship last as she was blamed of being possessive, dictatorial and demanding. Her previous friend a colleague Jennifer Dodd even threatened her with a restriction order if she tried to contact her again. episodes like this progressively reveal just how psychologically unhinged Barbara is.

When the bohemian Sheba Hart joins the faculty of St. Georges school, Barbara straight away senses that they might become good friends. Barbara gradually learns that Sheba is almost 41 and married with two children and that her son, Ben, has Down syndrome and her seventeen year old daughter attends a private boarding school. Her deceased father was an important scholar and economist. Sheba is rich and leads an apparently fulfilled individual and family life. Barbara and Sheba eventually become acquainted and later, Sheba invites Barbara for lunch with her family. Barbara is thrilled and the invitation is given huge significance: “I wondered if I ought

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