# Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. A successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver, it is the second game in the Red Dead series. Red Dead Redemption is set during the decline of the American frontier in the year 1911. It follows John Marston, a former outlaw who, after his wife and son are taken hostage by the government in ransom for his services as a hired gun, sets out to bring three members of his former gang to justice. The narrative explores themes of the cycle of violence, masculinity, redemption, and the American Dream. Red Dead Redemption 2 is its 2018 prequel.

## Quotes

* Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain’t nothing fair. You know that.
** John Marston [to Abigail]
* Sure, civilization may be dull, but the alternative, Mr. Marston, is hell.
** Agent Edgar Ross

## Dialogue

    Marston: Even in this new country, memories don't really fade. My father was an illiterate Scot, born on the boat into New York. He never saw his homeland, but to hear him talk about it, you would imagine he only ate haggis and wore a kilt. And he hated the English for what they had done to his great-grandparents he'd never met. People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.
    Bonnie: That's true, especially when it comes to money and you know even now, after all his labors, my father's debts are still terrible. I worry every day about us losing the ranch. It would kill him.
    Marston: My father died when I was 8 years old. His eyes were...well, let's just say he was blinded in a barfight south of Chicago. My mother died during childbirth. She was a prostitute and he was her, well I don't know what he was. 'Till I was sent off to an orphanage and ran away and fell in with a gang.
    Bonnie: My word, what a difficult life you've lived.
    Marston: The leader of the gang taught me how to read. Taught me how to see all that was good in the world. He was a great man in a way.
    Bonnie: But you killed people?
    Marston: Sure, and I've suffered for it. And that's the life I left, or tried to leave. I've said too much, Bonnie. I'm an uneducated killer sent here to do all I can do well, kill a man in cold blood so that another man may do his part to cut crime in an area, and a rich man can be elected governor on the back of these promises.
    Bonnie: Civilization is a truly beautiful thing, Mr. Marston.
    Bonnie MacFarlane: Are you a religious man?
    John Marston: Not in any real sense. Sometimes I tell myself that things happen for a reason. Like what brought me here was fate come-a-callin. But nobody made my path but me.
    Bonnie: We all need to look for answers somewhere. Some in big ol' books, and others in big bottles of whiskey.
    John: Believing in some kinda divine purpose ain't gonna bring me my wife and kid back. Past is who we are Miss MacFarlane. And there ain't no changing that. Faith is a luxury I can't afford.
    Abraham: How do you know my young lover, Laura?
    John: It's Luisa. I saved her life awhile not so long back.
    Abraham: I will not forget this, compadre. You will be rewarded. Money, women ...Luisa, if you want her.
    John: I'm here for two men, and that's it.
    Abraham: You have been spending too much time with Captain de Santa.
    John: Very funny. Not like that. I'll explain later.
    Bonnie: Mr. Marston, I've been hearing about your plans.
    John: Have you, Miss MacFarlane?
    Bonnie: Yes, from Leigh Johnson. To settle here and build a life for yourself.
    John: I'm afraid those aren't my plans. You see, I already have a life. Well, I had one, and I'm trying to reclaim it. Or maybe what you could say is that I had two, and I'm trying to end one of them so the other can survive.
    Bonnie: You do so love to talk in riddles, Mr. Marston. Do you do that, I wonder as a substitute for having anything interesting to say?
    John: Probably, Miss MacFarlane.
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    Bonnie: So, is this your boy?
    John: Yeah. Say hello to Miss MacFarlane, Jack.
    Jack Marston: Hello.
    John: The arrogance of youth. He gets a little fur on his lip and he thinks he knows best all of a sudden.
    Dutch: We can't always fight nature, John. We can't fight change. We can't fight gravity. We can't fight nothing. My whole life, John, all I ever did was fight. But I can't give up neither. I can't fight my own nature. That's the paradox, John. You see? When I'm gone they'll just find another monster. They have to. Because they have to justify their wages. Our time is passed, John. (Dutch van der Linde's last words)