Life consists of many difficulties, in fact its unclear if the world could be what it is if it wasn’t for the numerous amounts of them. One of these difficulties is dealing with the lose of a loved one. Almost all material things can be replaced, once a loved one is gone there is no replacing them. When they leave it is forever. It makes sense that loosing a loved one is so hard, because they are gone for good. In All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy the death of Blevins is a perfect model of what was just stated.
In any Novel word choice is key when painting a picture in the readers mind. McCarthy’s word choice in this passage, beautiful paints the perfect picture of a boy who is unknown to what will happen to him. The last time Blevins saw John Grady and Rawlins, the two words that John Grady used to describe the look on his face was “mute” and “terrified.” Which makes perfect sense, Blevins had no idea what was going to happen to him. As he was being taken away to be killed, the words which John Grady used to describe his method of walking as “hobbling” and “limped.” These two words show the weakness and the absence of strength that is in Blevins. Also, “jerked”, “shoved”, and “pushed” can be used to explain the way that Blevins was treated throughout the passage. From beginning to end guards would grab him by the arm and do as they please with him. They knew what was going to be done to him, therefore believed it was okay to treat in as if he was inhuman.
Dialogue in this passage is very significant, especially Blevins dialogues because it really helps the reader understand the uncertainty that he is going through. He does this specifically through questions. When they first stop in the field the first thing Blevins asks is “What do we do here?”(12). Then later in the passage “What are they goin to do?”(28) and again the same thing a little bit later (35). Besides this there was little dialogue in the passage, which McCarthy did purposefully so the...