Justice and courage are main themes in both The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Tin Star, violence is used a lot to settle the complications in the Western law. Both stories raise issues about what it truly means to be a brave person especially when justice often comes at a high cost. However, in The Tin Star's sheriff Doane accepts the brutal justice of the West without trying to change it. For example, when Doane says “Nothing. I can’t do anything until they start something. I can’t do a thing…Maybe the pen changes a man. Sometimes it does. I remember—”(Cunningham 3). He uses violence…