New Orleans
- 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. New Orleans already has a rich history and culture and I believe being able to map out what the city looked like closer to its inception would give us insight into where some of this history originated. Although it is depicted as violent, the city is detailed as having many travelers go through it. Being able to observe travel routes to, through, and from the city on a map can allow travel historians to better understand and picture how different groups lived or migrated across the country.
- Quote: “He is taken on for New Orleans aboard a flatboat. Forty-two days on the river... They break up the float and sell the lumber and he walks in the streets and hears tongues he has not heard before. He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with the sailors... They fight with fists, with feet, with bottles or knives. All races, all breeds. Men whose speech sounds like the grunting of apes. Men from lands so far and queer that standing over them where they lie bleeding in the mud he feels mankind itself vindicated” (p. 4). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Coordinates
Latitude: 29.951065800000
Longitude: -90.071532300000
Longitude: -90.071532300000