Captain White's Head
Guess what happens to you when you ride into Mexico with forty men and try to conquer the whole bloody country? Yep, you end up with your severed head inside a jar for all to see. It's fair to say...
Guns
Take one look at Anton Chigurh's silenced shotgun in No Country for Old Men and you'll realize that Cormac McCarthy has a bit of a thing for powerful guns. In the early going of Blood Meridian...
The Judge's Ledgerbook
When he's not killing people, Judge Holden likes to sit with his personal ledger and write down all kinds of things and people he's come into contact with. As the narrator says at one point:In his...
Fire
There are plenty of scenes in this book where you have a group of men sitting around a fire at night. And sooner or later, they're bound to get a little philosophical. As the narrator mentions at o...