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Bloody Merdian

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 to the town of Nacogdoches. The Kid, once thought to be on some sort of migratory movement to the West, has now completed a full circle and has returned to the place of his birth. Birth not in the physical sense of being delivered from his mother’s womb, but rather the Kid experienced a rebirth in the form of one of the judge’s “great clay voodoo dolls (pp.13).”
Throughout the whole book beginning on pp.14 and ending with his ...

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stray away from the fate the Judge had set for him and “elect therefore some opposite course (pp.330)?”
The opposite course the Kid elected for himself was one without pointless slaughter, and meaningless bloodshed. The kid wants desperately to get away from the “vast” and “broken” world of the desert and elects to complete his “circle” instead of staying out west. He chooses his own path out of the desert, one that “calls for the largeness of heart (pp. 330),” one that deviates from the Judges own “empty, barren, [and] hard [heart, whose] very nature is stone (pp.330).” This path is one, which does not include war. In the judges eyes the Kid has become a “false dancer (pp.331).” The Kid after all the years of false bloodshed that made up his youth, no longer “recognize [s] the sanctity of blood (pp.331)” and therefore according to the Judge, “dances a false dance.” Only the one “who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it ...

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Added: 5/23/2008 11:15:11 AM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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