Cormac Mccarthy The Road Analysis

Both characters act completely different when confronted by another character in the story. The man is more concerned about the safety of the boy and himself. However, the boy wants to do anything and everything to help anyone that they come across. For example, during one situation in the story, a thief attempted to steal all their belongings. When the man caught him, the boy started crying, “Papa?...Papa please don’t kill the man” (McCarthy 256). In contrast, after the man caught the thief the man held him at gun point and said, “If you dont put down the knife and get away from the cart...I’m going to blow your brains out” (McCarthy 256).The man is more concerned with their safety, whereas the boy is concerned about the wellbeing and safety of the thief. The man acts in a similar manner to Ely when the boy wants to give him food, “In the morning they stood in the road and he and the boy argued about what to give the old man” (McCarthy 173). These two characters can collide sometimes when deciding on whether or not they should give food to people like Ely or “The Lightning Man”. Not only are they different when confronted by another character, they are also different on the way they look at arising situations.

The father does not comply with his son and leaves the naked man alone in the cold. This further shows the differences between the boy and his father. The final contrast between the two is exemplified with the ending. Throughout the book the reader is allowed to assume that if the son dies in the novel then the father would consequently commit suicide. At the end of the story when the father dies first the boy stays strong and decides to blindly follow other survivors and put his faith in them. Throughout, the story; however the father doesn't put any trust into anyone. His son, being a foil of him decides to put his faith into other survivors and takes a leap of faith and follow them their camp. This instance further shows the stark difference between the father and the son.

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a novel written in 2006 about a father and a son who travel through a dystopian landscape of the United States. The book can be very compelling to read, primarily because of its unpredictable plot, but also because of several unique features it possesses. These features, including the novel’s setting, weather, and season could be explained by Thomas Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, which, because of the voluminous literary elements it explains, can also be compelling to read. Foster’s explanation of these elements can help to describe why McCarthy uses enduring quests, significant meals, and harsh weather as well as an apocalyptic setting and a cold season in The Road.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy, published in 2006, is about a father and a son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. The boy and Papa both grow and try to live through a time of violence and destruction. The novel illustrates, loss of innocence occurs when one is exposed to violence from a young age which causes one to act out in different ways.

The man panicks about whether or not he could kill his son in order to save him from the cannibals, while making sure that he is trying to comfort the boy at the same time. This shows that the man is not thinking about himself at all during a life-threatening few minutes; just thinking about how much it would hurt to have to kill his

Throughout the novel, the reader sees a constant reiteration of the boy’s kind and compassionate heart. Throughout The Road, the boy is not only seen as a symbol of hope to the man, but also to the rest of humanity

The Road by Cormac McCarthy was published in 2006. It is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel that garnered critical acclaim and accolades by top newspapers and reviewers, such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. While there is an overall sense of destruction throughout the book, there are many captivating moments of love and tenderness that the boy displays. On the way back to their camp, the man finds boot prints and finds that all their belongings are gone. They find the thief on the road and the man immediately threatens to shoot him.

Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic novel, The Road, conveys many hidden themes relating to sustaining morality in a time of despair. The story depicts a man and his son struggling to stay level-headed in an abandoned world with no food, water, or light. The boy symbolizes kindness and benevolence while the man contrasts him, prioritizing reality and survival. The man does everything in his power to ensure that the boy is kept safe and alive in the world, even when it comes to things that may question his morality. However, the boy does the opposite of what the man wants, such as lending food to scavengers, staying hopeful, and believing that people are good.

In Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road,” the world is recovering from a devastating post apocalyptic event. There are few survivors, and those who did survive the event are dying from starvation, dehydration, and lack of shelter. However, instead of banding together, most of the remaining survivors have turned on one another, with many resorting to cannibalism in order to survive. Yet, the man and the boy, although starving, only survive by using humane tactics. The man places great importance on being one of the “good guys,” even telling the boy “This is what the good guys do.

In the novel “The Road”, the author Cormac McCarthy shows how compassionate a child can be despite his surroundings. Through his novel, he takes us on an exploration of the experiences of The Boy and his father. He shows that The Boy, notwithstanding the environment that he has known his whole life.

Without the Boy, The Road would just be a bleak story about a man trying to survive. The ingenious use of a character like the Boy, who shows the most true humanity of any of the characters in the book, the author brings the

The world is in desolation and every day is a struggle to live. What would seem as an impossible situation is the daily life of a man and young boy in The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The Road is a post apocalyptic story of the hardships of a man and his son. Every day the two must face starvation, bitter, cold nights, and the loss of hope. Some days are easier than other but most of them are difficult. When the world comes to an almost end and just living becomes a difficult task you have to find a reason to live for. The man’s reason was his son. Without his son the will to live and fight to live would have disappeared. The man knows this himself and so did the mother of his son. With the everyday challenges they face the hardest is simply finding

He tells the boy that even if they had killed someone it would not be a very bad thing because God had given the man permission to do it, to protect the boy, and it was a necessary thing to do in order to live. The biggest act to violence, however, is the scene of the discovery of the dead infant. The scene is traumatic to the boy because he had seen the woman’s belly swollen from carrying an infant earlier on, and then shortly afterward, came across the remains of the baby laid on the ashes of a fire. The man describe that what the boy had seen was “a charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit. He [the man] bent and picked the boy up and started for the road with him, holding him close. I'm sorry, he whispered. I'm sorry” (198). The man feels instant regret for letting his guard down and allowing for the boy to sight such a monstrous thing. He apologizes to the boy with the argument that he should have shielded him from how harsh the world can be. The violence is inevitable and cruel and the boy comes to this realization at this time of the novel.

The man is the main character of the book. He is the boy's father, his son calls him papa. And believes that he has been chosen exclusively by God to keep the boy safe and to protect him from harm and the evils in the post apocalyptic world, even if that means killing him

(Road) The man has an unexplainable will to stay alive for as long as he can, even as he starts to physically deteriorate. The man finds motivation to stay alive by displaying his love and care toward the boy. “Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road stages the same problem of belief from the inside, but The Road is unique in locating the basis for meaning in the father's love for his son, and even suggesting that this meaning transcends the father's efforts to affirm and protect his son's life.”.