Blood Meridian
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Epilogue
Themes
All Themes Warfare and Domination Witness and Mercy Fate Religion and Ritual Racism and Partisanship
Quotes
Characters
All Characters The kid Judge Holden John Joel Glanton Louis Toadvine The John Jacksons Ben Tobin David Brown Grannyrat Chambers Bathcat Marcus “Long” Webster The Delawares Juan “McGill” Miguel Frank Carroll Sam Tate Dick Shelby Doc Irving Captain White Sergeant Trammel Sproule Angel Trias Sergeant Aguilar Colonel Garcia Reverend Green The hermit The Mennonite The Family of Magicians The "idiot" Owens Doctor Lincoln Elrod
Symbols
All Symbols The Dance Bathing
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Allegory Alliteration Allusions Anthropomorphism Dialect Dramatic Irony Fallacy Foil Foreshadowing Genre Idioms Imagery Irony Metaphors Mood Motifs Paradox Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone
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Blood Meridian

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Cormac McCarthy

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