Protagonist

Character Role Analysis

The Kid

The book doesn't always follow him around, but the kid is definitely the focal point of this story. We first meet him when he runs away from home at fourteen and he's our main dude from that point on. We see a lot of the action through his eyes and even though he's no angel, he's still the moral center of this book because he at least cares a tiny bit about all the people he kills. We're not quite sure whether the kid survives the final scenes of this book, but that's typical Cormac McCarthy for you.