Blood Meridian Themes

Riding around drunk in the burning hot sun all day and constantly under the threat of guerilla warfare is enough to drive any person crazy, but the question Blood Meridian keeps asking us is: where...

When you have a 350-page book that's all about white Americans, Mexicans, and Aboriginal people killing each other, you can bet that race is going to be a central theme in what's going on. No one i...

No matter what McCarthy book you read, you'll always come across the question of God in one way or another. In Blood Meridian, McCarthy constantly asks us to think about whether there is any God an...

With all of the horrible suffering and physical discomfort that comes with living in the desert, you can sure bet that the characters in this book like to drink away their problems whenever they ge...

If you want to start a conversation about Blood Meridian, you're pretty safe in saying that it's a violent book. Don't believe us? Take a look for yourself. Everywhere you look in this book, you'll...

There are few writers who can describe a landscape as vividly as Cormac McCarthy. But the dude isn't describing the land just for its own sake. Throughout this book, McCarthy gives us the sense tha...

It's true that sex doesn't show up all the time in Blood Meridian. But this is the Wild West we're talking about, so you're bound to get some tavern scenes with prostitutes and barmaids. What makes...

The kid decides to leave his family behind when he's only in his mid-teens. Meanwhile, Glanton has a family in America that he'll never see again because he's wanted by the law and he's dedicated h...