Cormac Mccarthy The Road Analysis

In Passage A, McCarthy uses ambiguous and foreboding dialogue in order to generate narrative suspense. At the beginning of this passage the father and the son come upon a house at the edge of an old town’s remnants, and the boy asks his father where they are (105). The father ignores the

This work brought to my attention that when placed in a situation that would test one’s morals, humans show the capacity to display both goodness and depravity. Throughout the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, there are many acts of pure wickedness while on the other hand there are instances where great beauty appears.

Throughout the novel, survival is a constant objective for the boy and his father. McCarthy’s gripping and frightening moments are most obviously interwoven with this theme. Soon after the death of his father the boy looks up and sees that “someone was coming. He started to turn and go back into the woods but he didnt. He just stood in the road and waited, the pistol in his hand” (McCarthy 281). With the approach of this new potential threat, the boy’s safety and survival are brought into question. As the strange man comes near, a tension builds while the boy tries to make a decision that could quite possibly affect the rest of his life. The tension dissipates when it is revealed that the man is not a threat, but a

“He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke” (McCarthy, 5). Throughout The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, the young boy is repeatedly seen as a Christ-like symbol to the man; a sign of hope and good morality. While the man is more occupied with finding food and fending for him and the boy, the boy is much more concerned over other people and their survival. The boy wants to consistently make sure him and his father are still “carrying the fire” and that they’re the “good guys.”

Mccarthy creates a bleak post apocalyptic society through the use of imagery. He describes a world where there is no wildlife and all that’s left are the ashes. “The road was gullied eroded and barren. The bones of dead creatures sprawled in the washes. Middens of anonymous trash”(177). While the man and the boy travel the road, they rarely come across other living things. The boy even shows a lack of knowledge about animals, constantly asking his father questions about them. They always have to keep moving due to the constant threat of danger. Their nomadic lifestyle prevents them from becoming attached to anything. This gives the feeling of absolute isolation. Throughout the novel, the man often has dreams of life before. His dreams are described in vivid colors, "walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them he and the child and the

In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the father ultimately sacrifices himself because he knows he taught his son well and believes in him to live a better life than dragging him along when he’s on the verge of death. The true reason he sacrifices so many things is only so his son has a better life than he does. If it wasn’t for his son, he wouldn’t have the strength to continue on the moving journey to the South for as long as he did. Through every sacrifice the father makes, it strengthens the son and gives him more hope to live and fight even when there is hardly anything left in the world. By the father sacrificing everything he has including food, warmth, and protection it shows the love for his son, and he only does

The use of McCarthy’s style of writing is written in a way that someone can detect the feelings of the character rather than the story of what happened. The purpose for narratives is to focused on the plot of the story but McCarthy wants the readers to really feel exactly what the characters feel so he in repetitive of how “Cold and Grey” (McCarthy 19) the world around them is Even when they are physically battle something like hunger, you can really feel that they were almost always “Out of food” (McCarthy 197).

Is it possible that Freedom is something that can be given? No, freedom is not given, it is a right. America, the beautiful, a country that practices freedom, equality, and liberty as a right. America is a first world country that strives for development and prosperity. It is a world where miracle and magic occurs through hardwork and perseverance. As a result, America is represented in many artistic projects: poems, films, novels, etc. For instance, the two authors Cormac McCarthy, The Road, and Jack Kerouac, On The Road, implement the theme of America in their novel. As a result, the two novels critique America, praise America, and supports the American Dream. In addition, America’s culture and society is revealed through the two novels’ theme, road.

The Road is a story where is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where the date and location is unnamed. The author of the novel Cormac McCarthy doesn 't describe why or how the disaster has demolish the earth. But after reading the novel, I can sense that the author wanted to present a case of mystery and fear to the unknown to the reader. By the author 's exclusion I think that the story gains a better understanding of what the author wanted to express to the reader. An expression of a man and his son surviving in a post-apocalyptic setting.

In the novel, The Road, Cormac McCarthy illustrates the expressions, settings and the actions by various literary devices and the protagonist’s struggle to survive in the civilization full of darkness and inhumanity. The theme between a father and a son is appearing, giving both the characters the role of protagonist. Survival, hope, humanity, the power of the good and bad, the power of religion can be seen throughout the novel in different writing techniques. He symbolizes the end of the civilization or what the world had turned out to be as “The Cannibals”. The novel presents the readers with events that exemplify the events that make unexpected catastrophe so dangerous and violent. The novel reduces all human and natural life to the

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is his post-apocalyptic magnus opus which combines a riveting plot along with an unconventional prose style. Released in 2006, the novel has won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award (Wilson). Oprah Winfrey also selected the book for her book club ("Cormac McCarthy”). The author, Cormac McCarthy, was born in 1933 in Rhode Island and is said to have wrote the novel because of his son and their relationship. The Road centers around a boy and his father while they try to survive after an unknown disaster occurs. While some people may argue that the unusual style takes away from the novel, it adds to the tone and meaning of the work.

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