Cormac McCarthur

"Blood Meridian" was an interesting excerpt and one I did not fully understand it at first. One of the most interesting aspects of this excerpt to me is how Cormac uses his words to paint an extremely vivid picture in the reader's head. For example, Cormac describes a child's lifeless body in a church with two buzzards perched on it, among with many other bodies in the church, and I felt like I could envision this scene in my head as if I were watching a movie. To me, Cormac depicted Native Americans as savages and barbarians. While there is not much background on the characters one can imagine the characters must have had some injustices done to them by Native Americans. Some of the scenes from the excerpt depict Native Americans murdering whole villages, children and women not withstanding. Therefore, I found myself wondering why Cormac would paint such a negative image of Native Americans and what was his reasoning for writing such a descriptive and violent excerpt.