How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens. (1.13.20)
Like the Pawnee Indians he spent a year befriending, Glass prefers the symbolic release of a funeral pyre to the symbolic constraint of a buried grave. Makes sense. In this light, Captain Henry's insistence that the men dig a grave for Glass before he dies takes on a slightly darker tinge.
Quote #8
"I won't let them cut us up. [...] Don't worry, little brother," he whispered, leaning back into the current's welcoming arms. "It's all downstream from here." (2.17.58)
The Cattoire brothers' death scene is pretty gutting. First, it reveals the tight bond between the bros that's sometimes obscured by their hammy insults and arguments. But Dominique's fear of the Arikara mutilating their bodies after death reveals something far more frightening.
Quote #9
Jim Bridger stared in horror at the specter. Driven snow was plastered against every surface of its body, encasing it in frozen white. (2.21.76)
If Glass is a ghost, then you can bet your butt he ain't a friendly one. And that goes double if your name is Jim Bridger. It's also worth mentioning that this image echoes Bridger's dream from earlier in the novel, which gives us the impression that he knew, on some level, that Glass was still alive.