Meridian is the story of Meridian Hill, a black student who joins the Civil Rights Movement and enters a tumultuous romance with another member of the cause. Her lover, Truman Held, is mercurial in his commitment both to the movement and to Meridian. Meridian herself remains steadfast even through enduring an abortion and the messy end of her relationship with Truman as he leaves in pursuit of financial success and a romance with a white woman. The novel deals with the place of women in the Civil Rights struggle.
Blood Meridian is the story of the Glanton Gang, a cadre of scalpers who terrorized the American West in the mid nineteenth century. The bulk of the narrative follows a teenage criminal known only as the Kid, an enigmatic figure sinking quickly into a life of violence. The story follows the Kid's meeting with the gang, led by John Joel Glanton and the vicious, inhuman Judge Holden, and his participation in their bloody crimes.
The excerpt from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a description of a brutalized horse and how its death came to be Although the idea seems simple at first McCarthy takes the extra step of describing the scene more effectively using precision only where it is required McCarthy is selective with his words in the sense that he chooses to use words that connote desperation for survival There is a feeling of unease when reading the passage because of his diction The structure of the passage is r
Scarlet Letter Darkness to Light The Scarlet Letter shows thought out the book many different themes and motifs There are also many symbols The main motif shown was the transition from dark to light The main three symbols I saw that displayed this transition were Hester Prynne her daughter Pearl and the scaffold All three had a transition of being in or being used as something that represents a form of darkness into something being used as a form of light All three have other symbols that are a