THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

“LOUIS L’AMOUR”
Novel analyze
Organized BY SYAMSU RIZAL
DESCRIPTION OF THIS NOVEL
•Published in november 1973 by BANTAM
BOOKS(US)
•Acquire 10 chapter
•Advanture novel
•Written by Louis L’amour
Author’s Bio
Louis L'Amour

Born Louis Dearborn LaMoore

22 March 1908
Jamestown, North Dakota, U.S.

Died 10 June 1988 (aged 80)

Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Books written 89 novel including series novel
Occupation Novelist, short story writer
Language English
Genre Western, science fiction, adventure, non-fiction
Books written
•Crossfire Trail, 2001. (TV)
•The Diamond of Jeru (2001) (TV)
•Shaughnessy (1996) (tv)
•Conagher (1991) (TV)
•The Quick and the Dead (1987) (HBO TV)
Writing style
●Narrative style.
●Author is trying to make reader enter to
the story.
●Trying to import information.
●It’s complete with characters, conflict,
and setting
Symbolism
●Don’t have any symbolism..
●Narrative story that’s made for
students.
●Level that fit students so it has to be
simple.
Conten of analyze each chapter
• Main idea
• Plot
• Inference
• Point of view
• Vocabulary
• Detail word info
• setting
Description of story’s novel
•When duncan Mckaskel decided to
move his family west, he knew he
would face dangers, and he was
prepared for them
Point of view
•Writer as narrator because in the novel
explain about the name of charcter
• Example(page 1, line 1) “when susanna
stepped down from the wagon”
setting
•Dense forest,
•On the edge of the river
•Time
• Morning, afternoon, evening, night and
midnight
Chapter 1
• Main idea
• Duncan’s wife sussana doubs that they will get to
destination
• Plot
• Backtrack because they tell the past problem
Inference
• Susanna is a woman who can make men and even
women fall in in love when looking at his face
• Means, susanna is very beautiful person, because in
page 3, line 9, written that “even wome fall in love
when looking at his face”
• Duncan remained silet and watched the fire, despite an
angel passing beside him
• Means, duncan is day dreaming
Vocabulary
• hypochondria (hy·po·chon·dri·a) the convection
that one is or is likely to become ill even though th
ere is no medical evidence of illness
• Detail info => page 7 line 8 (he got hypochondria
after he lost his friend)
Chapter 2
• Main idea
• The are attacked by a flock of robbers when
duncan is asleep
• Plot
• Cronological plot
Inference
• Falling into a place that will bring them to marine (page 12
line 9)
• Means, river, because something that will brig them to
marine is a river
• I cook water that can keep you not sleepy at night (page 13,
line 6)
• Means, coffee, because coffe can make people not sleepy, and
reinforced with duncan respone(do you mean magical black
water?)
Vocabulary
• grasshoppers, is a nickname for fugitives
who fatang like grasshoppers
•Mournful, is inducing sadness
•Mellifluous, a sweet and gentle voice
that pleasent when heard
Chapter 3
• Main idea
• Duncan begins to doubt his stance because of
too many criminals they face
• Plot
• Backtrack plot, because they imagining what
happened to the
Inference
• His horse slept soundly for saving duncan life( page 34,
line 5)
• Means, his horse dead because being shot by a froup
that wanted to kill duncan(page 36, line 7)
• Her tears dripped with fear(page 38, line 9)
• Means, susanna cried,
Vocabulary
• Ineffable, too great and amaizing to be described
with word
• Evanescent, quickly disapeared and lasted only for
a short time
• Hiraeth, feelings of homesickness that we can not
visit
Chapter 4
• Main idea
• They regain their spiris after helping someone
who travels more miserably
• Plot, cronological plot, because they begin new
advanture
Inferece
• Do you want something black like a night and sweet like
a sin(page 49,line 4)
• Means, coffe, because in the next sentence they
conclude that it was a coffe
• Darkness that will come with water(page 52, line 12)
• Means , cloudy
Vocabulary
•Epoch. A certain periode of time in one’s life
•Limerence, a condition when we are crazy
about someone
•Petrichor.,soothing soil smell after rain
•Halcyon, a happy condition, quiet and
peacful
Chapter 5
• Main idea
• They regain their spiris after helping someone
Plot, cronological plot, because they begin new
advanture
Inferece
• Do you want something black like a night and sweet like
a sin(page 49,line 4)
• Means, coffe, because in the next sentence they
conclude that it was a coffe
• Darkness that will come with water(page 52, line 12)
• Means , cloudy
Vocabulary
•Epoch. A certain periode of time in one’s life
•Limerence, a condition when we are crazy
about someone
•Petrichor.,soothing soil smell after rain
•Halcyon, a happy condition, quiet and
peacful
Chapter 6
• Main idea
• Duncan’s wife sussana doubs that they will get to
destination
• Plot
• Backtrack because they tell the past problem
Inference
• Susanna is a woman who can make men and even
women fall in in love when looking at his face
• Means, susanna is very beautiful person, because in
page 3, line 9, written that “even wome fall in love
when looking at his face”
• Duncan remained silet and watched the fire, despite an
angel passing beside him
• Means, duncan is day dreaming
Vocabulary
• hypochondria (hy·po·chon·dri·a) the convection
that one is or is likely to become ill even though th
ere is no medical evidence of illness
• Detail info => page 7 line 8 (he got hypochondria
after he lost his friend)
Chapter 7
•Main idea
• duncan meet a very strong group with
the same goal to move to the west
Event and interaction
• Duncan and his wife met with a generous group
that help them to move to the west
• Duncan and his wife tought by the group about
how to survive in the forest
 Detail information
• They have each person's weapons (the new group) (page
145, line 5)
• Duncan changed his appearance like that group with full of
black clothes, using boots, and using a headband (page 145,
line 10)
•   create an invisible camp, they sleep in tall trees (page 146,
line 7)
Sentence info
• The group's name is the crow of death, because
they often move at night
• The group continued down the river until it
accidentally met with Duncan and his wife
• They get weapons from the criminals they
manage to defeat
 Plot
• Progressive plot( because this story is a cronological structure
which first establishes the setting and conflict, then follow the
rising action throught the climax
-begins when the duncan and his family meet with the droup of crows
until at the end of this chapter they make it through several nights without
any problems, and duncan feels they will get to the west safely without
fear of anything
•Setting
in the morning and evening in Lust
forest not far from the river
•Symbolism
•We must be smart when we in a chain
condition (page 147, line 7)

Chain mean(come in both direction)

•Inference
•With the bare hands, duncan makes the
face of the villains battered
•Means, duncan punch the villains.
• throw a hook into the river to get a fish
•Means, fishing
•Strange Vocabulary
•Extraneous=foreign, aliens(asing)
•Havoc=catastrophe(malapetaka)
•Monkeyshine=craftiness(tipu muslihat)
Chapter 8
•Main idea
•Duncan was betrayed by a group they
believed to be kind hearted before
Event and interaction
• Duncan was sleep when he attacked by crow
group
• Duncan try to safe his wife
• Duncan catch the leader of the group so he can
control all the member
Detail information
• a night different from the previous night, all the lights off,
no sound of anyone, which keeps Duncan awake(page 160,
line 12)
• Duncan felt like the rope that tied him to sleep would
break, but he thought a pretty strong rope made of quality
fibers was not possible to break easily.( page 161, line 6)
• Duncan became the leader of the crow group with his wise
character and accompanied by a generous wife
Sentence info
•the crow group is actually a villain disguised as
a good man to kill Duncan
• I trick you because I want to know if you have
another group(page 167, line 6)
•Allthe stories the crows have gathered are false
to looking some infomation about other group
Plot
• Flashback
• because in
the beginning this chapter takes place at the
end of the day's fight between Duncan and the crow
group, then Duncan succeeds in capturing their leader
that makes Duncan win the battle, but when Duncan
wants to kill their leader, Duncan's wife tells that they
once helped Duncan's family
•Setting
•At the camp(midnight)
•Symbolism
•People with Black hearth
•Black hearth(means, bad people) black
symbolized as a crime
•Inference
•You will not be able to walk properly if the
sun has set(pages 150, line 12)
•Means, night
•He got to the tree just a few moves(pages 155,
14)
•Means, Climmbing trees
•Strange vocbulary
•Panoply(complete weaponry)
•Malign(defamatory or accused thing
that were not done)
CHAPTER 9
•Main idea
•They canceled their plans to move to
the west and made a new plan to build
a wooded house on the edge of the
river
Detail information
• field beside the dam, with lots of trees ready to be
cut down for home use
• Duncan changed the nature of his people who
were originally criminals to be hospitable
• people who are family and living happily with food
sources from rivers and forests
plot
•Flashback
•they start a new story from the goal to live
in love with each other
•Setting
in the morning and evening in Lust
forest not far from the river
•Symbolish
•Love is a jewel
•means, this is symbolic because love is
rare and pressure
•Inference
•His face sour while raising the gun(page 160,
line 9)
•Means, angry, because in line 15 exlpain that
susana was make the villain angry
•Looking for some wild deer for dinner(page
173, line 13)
•Means, hunt, because said wild deer
•Strange vocabulary
•Mortify(embrassing)
•Moribund(almost die)
•Tarantism(a physichological illness
characteried by an extream impulse to
dance caused by the bite of a tarantula)
Moral Value
there are two reasons why we don’t trust
people
1. We dont know them
2. we know them