Blood Meridian (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Western
- Time of Work: 1833-1878
- Setting: Southwestern United States and Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Crime or criminals
- Locales: Mexico
Characters Discussed
Blasarius, known as the kid, a scrappy runaway with a taste for violence. At the age of sixteen, he joins an outlaw army with the ostensible goal of “liberating” Mexico but an actual mission of seizing land. After his party is slaughtered by Comanches, he is arrested in Mexico. He and his fellow prisoner Toadvine are freed to join a rabble gang of scalp hunters, led by Captain Glanton and Judge Holden. The kid is initiated into a naturalistic universe in which, according to the judge, war is god. When a gypsy reads the men’s tarot cards, the kid draws...
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