Death is a Western Theme

The book, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, is finally kicking off. The genre has reached a critical point in which build up is starting to happen between the more key characters and all the less important and garbage, disposable, characters are dying off. Now even when new characters are introduced they are usually killed right away and labeled as victims for the killers legacy. Even the main antagonists crews are always completely wiped out in every encounter, and when someone get injured seriously they are just automatically killed and put out of their misery. Death is now the theme of this western novel and it is leading up to a much anticipated conflict and western genre books are known to be very good with build-up.

July Johnson finally met up with his brother Roscoe but the reunion was short lived because a Native had followed July and assassinated Roscoe at night. July is the more important character because he is destined to find Jake Spoon in a final standoff and Roscoe is just his brother and in the Western he is just considered in the way. Blue Duck is the toughest criminal out there in the West and his crew were all a group of Natives he teamed up with due to similar enemies. In the end they were all used as body shields because Blue Duck is the main antagonist and is destined to have a standoff with Augustus the main protagonist. Blue Duck even cut off one of his crew members testis.

All in all it is important to know that in the Western Genre a common reoccurring theme is death. There will always be death and that's ok because in the end the antagonist is always stopped and I feel like that will happen.