Blood Meridian Analysis

If you can get past all the violence, you'll quickly see that Blood Meridian offers one of the most spectacular descriptions of setting that has ever been written. Ever. Just feast your eyes on a p...

Toward the beginning of this book, it looks as though the narrator might be a limited omniscient because it only reports the thoughts and actions of our main character, the kid. But the book opens...

It's not fun to admit, but Blood Meridian is pretty accurate in the way it describes the situation in the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico around 1850. Yes, there were bounties for Aboriginal scalps an...

 Don't let McCarthy's poetic language fool you. The guy describes his characters and setting like a scientist, almost always focusing on things that can be seen from the outside: behavior, sta...

One look at McCarthy's writing and you'll know what we mean by "Dense and Poetic":On the day following they crossed the malpais afoot, leading the horses upon a lakebed of lava all cracked and redd...

So what does Blood Meridian mean, eh? Well for starters, we need to know that a meridian is a vertical line that wraps all the way around the earth and helps people mark their position. In other wo...

"Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood an...

"He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancin...

This book is just about as dense as books can get. And it's not like McCarthy gives you any chance to take a breather. Every sentence is packed so full with symbolism that it can be hard to keep up...

We meet the book's main character, the kid, who runs away from home when he's only fourteen years old. He spends a few years wandering the American Southwest, getting himself shot and stabbed fairl...

At the opening of this book, the kid (our main character) doesn't have a whole lot going for him. His mother is dead and his father's an alcoholic who's drinking his life away. At fourteen, the kid...

The main character, named "the kid," runs away from home at the age of fourteen. And boy oh boy, is life ever hard on him. After a few years of getting stabbed and shot in bars, he finds his way in...

Did You Know that James Franco is Involved with the Movie Production of Blood Meridian? (Source)McCarthy isn't afraid to talk some serious smack about big-name writers. Just check out what he says...

The mention of prostitutes and sex throughout this book is more than enough to earn it an R-rating, even if all the blood and gore hadn't already convinced you. This is the Old West, after all. It'...

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