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It’s hard to miss this when that’s the character’s only name, and it changes in the middle.
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What this says to us is that McCarthy has built the structure of the narrative along the familiar line of the Bildungsroman, the novel of a boy growing into a man. Remember that at a certain point late in the novel he is no longer called the kid he is called the man. If you didn’t, you swam against McCarthy’s own prose. Is that right? Did you feel that, by this point, when he leaves the Glanton Gang, he’s matured in some way? Did you feel that? Yes? No? Yes. What does this Bible signify at this moment? The kid, I would guess to most of you, seemed like, at this point, he had become somewhat different. I want to account for this little detail through an argument that will pick up the points I made about allusion on Monday and integrate those into a different kind of argument.
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He had a Bible he’d found at the mining camps, carried this book with him, “no word of which he could read.” Why does the kid carry a Bible, when he is illiterate, and why does it appear at this moment in the narrative? These are the questions I want to try and answer. It’s that detail of the Bible that interests me here. In his dark and frugal clothes some took him for a sort of preacher, but he was no witness to them, neither of things at hand nor things to come, he least of any man. He had a Bible that he’d found at the mining camps and he carried this book with him, no word of which he could read. By now he’d come by a horse and a revolver, the rudiments of an outfit. He was treated with a certain deference as one who had got on to terms with life beyond what his years could account for. He did not avoid the company of other men. He traveled about– He traveled about from place to place. They’ve been routed by the Yumas, and now he is on his own. This is the kid after he has left the Glanton Gang. Professor Amy Hungerford: Starting on page 312, here is the little detail. Structural Allusions: McCarthy’s Formulation of the Hero The American Novel Since 1945 ENGL 291 - Lecture 18 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont.)Ĭhapter 1.