| 1. What is ironic about Blevins’
statement, “Boys . . . this is goin to be a long old trip”
(174)?
2. Analyze the scene where Blevins is shot. What is the tone?
What powerful images does McCarthy depict? What does McCarthy convey through this scene? Does Blevins deserve to die for his "crimes"? What does McCarthy suggest about the charro and the captain? Use specific quotations to support your argument. Write more than a page.
3. Reflect briefly on the following quotation, "Underpinning all of it like the fiscal standard in commerical societies lay a bedrock of depravity and violence where in an egalatarian absolute every man was judged by a single standard and that was his readiness to kill" (182).
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