The kid is anonymous and described as a 'cipher,' suggesting that he is not meant to be a unique individual but rather a representative figure through whom we experience the moral chaos of the frontier world.
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“we know him as the kid and later on as the man but he's anonymous he is uh in some ways a cipher”
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