Essays on Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian The ending of the Blood Meridian is both abstruse and compelling. The setting when the kid first walks into town (pp.324) seems almost too familiar. This town could be any number of different towns located throughout the Midwest, but it seems strangely related…

Violence and Redemption In the profound book The Powers That Be, author Walter Wink reflects on the theme of “redemptive violence” and states that: “The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the…

An Exploration of Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian As human beings, we often find ourselves searching. It is ingrained within us to question the nature of the world, and to discover the truth of what surrounds us. From the creation of the wheel…