Topic > Analysis of the novel True Grit by Charles Portis - 1246

19:20-21, Lev. 24:19-20) and feels entitled to the “law of retaliation” (Wiki. 2015) to harm Tom Chaney, regardless of the consequences that will befall her because of the sin. “The eye that now seeth me shall see no more: ye shall seek me, but I am no more” (Job 7:8) God says this to people who appear to walk by faith, but are ready to take vengeance from others who have done them of evil. Mattie does not have the power to complete God's will for Chaney. Mattie is not afraid of what awaits her from God's judgment of her sin, nor does she care about God's eternal truth for "Amazing Grace" (Portis