The essay before you is an explanation of how Western films have become the iconically American Genre of film. I went into detail with examples from the films True Grit, DJANGO unchained, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to demonstrate how the conventions of Western movies tie them all together. Focusing on plot lines, settings, and rules of Western films I gave a basic template of what a viewer should look for in a western film.

I tried to hide my thesis inside of the essay and postpone my main idea with a longer introduction. I believe that this gives my essay a little more validity and makes it more interesting to read. The transitions between paragraphs however, are still rough. I think that if my paragraphs were rearranged then I could get them to flow better than the way they are currently.

In the post Finding America an Ocean Away I have gone back to this essay to rearrange some of the paragraphs, and then I went back in to look at how I was describing scenes from the movie. I decided that the way in which they were written required the reader to have previously seen the movie. To fix this I went in and added an even greater amount of description and should have hopefully made my essay so that someone who has never seen a western before will be able to understand some of their key characteristics.