Setting+and+Time

=Importance of Setting=

The book takes place on the borders of Texas and Mexico. This has a great importance to the book. As __No Country for Old Men__ can almost be thought of as a western story, what better place to have it in than Texas? Also, in the 1980's you won't find a situation like this that could actually happen anywhere else. No where else is there so much space and so much open warfare. Texas was the perfect setting for __No Country for Old Men__

=Importance of Time Period=

__No Country for Old Men__ takes place during the 1980's. It is important that the book took place in this time period for several reasons. All over America there were social changes taking place. The "hippie" era was dying and the technology era was taking place. This is the dying age of the "cowboy" era. The relentlessness that these people show are the last of an entire era. An important thought to notice. When reading this book, if it took place in 2009, no one would have ever thought this a probably situation. However, it is a much more plausible situation in the 1980's. For a book to be great, everything has to be just right. __No Country for Old Men__ was set at the perfect time period.