But I guess if I really wanted to, I could assume the kid was maybe only raped–the judge was naked, he was a renowned rapist–and the kid was left there with blood all over him. Blood Meridian is an odd and passion-filled novel, coated with themes of violence, death and existentialist characters in a vast empty desert. Similarly, Blood Meridian is a fictional story set in history with yet another psychological layer. Perhaps, Chamberlain did that as well. Blood Meridian — Judge Holden on the Raising of Children Posted on September 29, 2010 by Biblioklept Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is larded with strange little pockets of the black humor, humor so black that it’s hard to catch on the first or second reading. Blood Meridian, widely regarded as Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece, tells the story of “the kid” (early on “the child,” and in the final chapter “the man”) as he leaves his childhood home of Tennessee and becomes entangled with a group of vicious scalp-hunters.Most of the novel’s action takes place when he is a young teenager. The demonic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian inspired David Vann when he was writing his acclaimed collection of stories set in the Alaskan wilderness gnosticism and mccarthy's blood meridian The (in)famous and gnomic epilogue of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in The West : In the dawn there is a man progressing over the plain by means of holes which he is making in the ground. It is human nature to cast yourself in a positive light when describing your own biography. After reading Blood Meridian the first time to absorb the story, I read through the book a second time, stopping to pay particular attention to certain phrases and rereading entire scenes in order to fully appreciate the use of language. God, Evil and Truth in Cormac McCarthy’s "Blood Meridian" and "The Crossing" The Judge is absolutely one of … Although McCarthy doesn’t specifically tell us what happened to the kid (now the man) at the end of Blood Meridian, we can assume he was murdered by the judge.