McCarthy's childhood home
Discuss the role of landscape in All the Pretty Horses.
But if you crave a more specific direction:
Why all the blood-red imagery? Why are the landscapes often described as blood-red? On page five you find images of blood and the recent frontier, and the threat of Comanche warriors still echoing in the air. What feeling is McCarthy trying to create? How does this atmosphere enhance meaning in the novel (remember our discussion of form and content).
A post of no less than 500 words is due by the end of the period.
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