After Jack dies, Ennis visits Lightning Flat, the home of Jack's parents and where Jack's ashes were sent to be buried. It is said to be along the border with Montana. This is where Ennis finds the shirt of his that Jack kept tucked inside his own from Brokeback Mountain.
After Ennis leaves Alma, he continues meeting with Jack Twist.
"Years on years they worked their way through the high meadows and mountain drainages, horse-packing into Big Horns, Medicine Bows, Gallatins, Absarokas, Granites, Owl Creeks, the Bridger-Teton Range, the Freezeouts and the Shirleys, Ferrises and the Rattlesnakes, Salt River Range, into the Wild Rivers, the Sierra Madres, Gros Ventres, the Washakies, Laramies, but never returning to Brokeback."
After the summer ends, Ennis marries Alma Beers and moves to the old Elwood Hi-Top place north of Lost Cabin in Washakie County. After they have their first daughter, they move to Riverton. This is where Ennis gets a letter from Jack Twist asking to meet for the first time in four years.
Brokeback Mountain is actually a fictional place in the short story "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx. It is inspired by the Bighorn Mountains which is a sister range of the Rocky Mountains existing halfway between Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park. It is the location where Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar meet for the first time while working for Farm and Ranch Employment over the summer, making it extremely significant.
Chihuahua city is important in Blood Meridian as the main cast of characters comes here twice, both instances do not look positive for the kid. The first instance (detailed in the quote) shows the kid get arrested by Mexican authorities for taking part in a filibuster.
Chihuahua city is important in Blood Meridian as the main cast of characters comes here twice, both instances do not look positive for the kid. The first instance (detailed in the quote) shows the kid get arrested by Mexican authorities for taking part in a filibuster.
A map out of San Antonio, Texas (also known as Bexar in Blood Meridian) would be intriguing as we could almost differentiate between where the average citizen/traveler would go (the city itself) and where the criminals and cowboys would go (the caves and other caverns on the outskirts of the city). On top of that, I am curious to see how much of the culture and history of San Antonio is still present compared to what the city was like during the wild west time period in America.
Here in Blood Meridian, the child moves to New Orleans after running away. The way the setting is described sound unpleasant, unruly, and violent to say the least. This couldn’t have been a good influence on a young and impressionable child who already has been exposed to much pain and heartache.
Tennessee: In Blood Meridian, the main character is nameless and what the audience and other characters refer to him as changes as the story progresses. He is known as “the child” when the story begins, but is known as “the kid” for the majority of the story. The child was born with a difficult start to his life in Tennessee when his mother passed away at an early age and he was frequently mistreated by his father.
Wickham seduces the younger Bennet daughter, Lydia, and runs away with her away from Brighton as- where it is mentioned multiple times in the novel beforehand that the military encampment near Hertfordshire is, and where Lydia had spent time visiting.
