“Too much talking these days. “That's all there is; there isn't anymore.” —Ethel Barrymore The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. You understand?”

American Gods Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations.

Such things could not occur.

“People believe, thought Shadow. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of American Gods by Neil Gaiman.Copyright © 1999 - 2020 GradeSaver LLC. “All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. Go, not chess.

“They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin," said Wednesday. You may fill in the details from your own experience.” He is also the main character of the follow-up novella, The Monarch of the Glen and of the short story, "Black Dog," in Trigger Warning. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”

Chess, not checkers. When Low Key questions Shadow if he is happy knowing that he is soon to be released, Shadow answers with the above mentioned quote. “Are you sure about this?"

Each of the bones was dry and ball-like.

“Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.” “Gods die. You can help us out by revising, improving and updating And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. “Hey," said Shadow. “I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” “I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.” "American Gods Quotes".

Because it's easier to pass for real, in the dark. “One describes a tale best by telling the tale.

Shadow Moon is the main protagonist and central subject of American Gods.He is a seemingly ordinary man from the Midwest, who is caught up in the war between the Old Gods and the New Gods when Mr. Wednesday hires him as a bodyguard. “There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. "As the turkey farmer said when he hatched his first turtle.” “Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.” After their temples fall apart. this section.

“I think I would rather be a man than a god. Each time, I get something new out of it, just like I do when I reread other beloved novels. Native Americans and immigrants to America possessed their own gods, myths, and superstitions, but they have been abandoned, forgotten, or made more appealing to the largely monotheistic mainstream taste.

“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.” People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. You know why dead people only go out at night, puppy? American Gods Quotes by Neil Gaiman About American Gods American Gods Summary Character List Glossary Themes Quotes Analysis Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Metaphors and Similes Irony Imagery Literary Elements Essay Questions But the quote can be applied to humans as well as there is no one who can escape time and eventually death.

. Welcome back. Further, this quote serves as an example of how Gaiman depicts American values, and it echoes of deconstructionism.“A small boy sat inches away from the television set, a video of the Disney This quote pinpoints the way that traditional beliefs have been modernized. “Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you—even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. The quote wants to suggest that as time passes by, the old Gods die. American Gods remains one of my favorite novels and I reread it every couple years. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong.

And that is what makes them dangerous.”

The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. Chapter 1 Quotes And the moral of this story, according to Johnnie Larch, was this: don't piss off people who work in airports. Easter is the Germanic goddess Ēostre, or Ostara, and she is sustained by the fact that her name is associated with a Christian holiday. “Part of the joy of … If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. This is somewhat similar to the way that Hercules was made into a Disney movie.