American Culture
American heroic mythology is rooted in the history or our movement west and in the legacy of open space, mobility, and rich natural resources. The migration westward into open spaces containing rich natural resources helped create a society emphasizing wealth, mobility, freedom, transformation, and opportunity for conquest. This was observed while watching Tombstone and when reading West of Everything. While watching Tombstone I noticed that the movie was really a battle between good and evil with Wyatt Earp and his crew being good and the old red-ragged cowboys being the evil.
As stated above in Tompkins' Introduction she states that, "the west functions as a symbol of freedom, and the opportunity for conquest" (Tompkins 4). This is not only applied to Wyatt Earp and his gang but also applies to our history of American Culture. First I want to analyze the first part of that quote, "the west functions as a symbol of freedomÂ…" and the significance it has......
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