On Cultural Memory In Cormac McCarthy's "the Border Trilogy"

"The Border Trilogy" ("All the Pretty Horses", "The Crossing", "The Cities Of Plain")are works of Cormac McCarthy, who is a famous American writer, which is writing a song of cowboy legendary through hero's life, displaying the loss and destruction of western. This paper discusses it for four chapter of western culture memory.The first, it discusses love of west and western culture of Cormac McCarthy by memories of Wild West myth and western cowboy myth in western.Second, it discusses the relationship between man and nature of western pastoral. It depicts magnificent and destruction landscape of nature and heroes respect animals which praise cowboys keep harmonious relationship between man and nature.Third, it discusses the pastoral image in society by memory of family, life landscape of border and the cowboy legendary which express the spirit of independent and adventure to show the loss of west myth.Fourth, it discusses the memory transmission of west culture by imagery, scenes of death, ceremony and conversational stories."The Border Trilogy" displays the loss of free life way in western myth, which cherishes the memory of western border tradition, also laments the loss of the frontier and free way of life. By memory cowboy culture, praise cowboys who create a distinguishing feature of western culture at the same time.