The excerpt from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a description of a brutalized horse and how its death came to be Although the idea seems simple at first McCarthy takes the extra step of describing the scene more effectively using precision only where it is required McCarthy is selective with his words in the sense that he chooses to use words that connote desperation for survival There is a feeling of unease when reading the passage because of his diction The structure of the passage is r