a question of Black Meridian

[weijiachen]

I am just finishing reading it, but somehow did't really get. I am feeling like the maturity is a big theme in this western environment Cormac McCarthy sets up, but i cannot explicitly say it. Forks, any thoughts and clues?

[ajvenigalla]

It's Blood Meridian, not Black Meridian.

I don't know how much "maturity" plays into the novel, but Blood Meridian is in a way a perverted coming-of-age story insofar as the Kid is concerned. The Kid is a party to many of the heinous crimes of the Glanton gang, yet he is heroic in that he constantly resists the violent bellicosity of the Judge. He continues to resist the Judge's impulses even though he is defeated at the very end. Perhaps McCarthy depicts a world in which evil exists but in which there will always be resistance to it.