Alfred Mccarthy The Road Analysis
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McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print. The Road is set in a grim atmosphere. It is after apocalypse world where all signs of life are extinct. People and animals are starving, and predatory groups of savages wander around with pieces of human bodies stuck in their teeth. It is both oppressive and disheartening. McCarthy sets an atmosphere like one mediately after the world wars. It is not far-fetched to imagine the possibility of such a sad environment today. The novel tells a story of an unnamed man and his son in who struggle to survive in this horrific environment. I feel that the language in the novel is verbose. McCarthy is blunt in his descriptions. He uses repeated struggles and similar scenes forcing the reader to share the tough experience of the characters. I agree with the author that The Road is the picture of a post-apocalyptic world. I also agree with the opinion that suffering might never end, like the novel indicates through imagery at the very end. The author manages to combine happy moments with sad ones even though the sad ones takes the larger share. In addition, he accomplished his aim of having an audience that is glued to the book all along sine it is both engaging and informative. The author has a perception that the world is composed of more bad things than the good ones. This novel will be important to me as I explore the themes of post-apocalyptic fears and human struggles. However, I do feel that he leans too heavily on sadness …show more content…
than moving on after war. I am specially interested in picking up from where he left in regard to his idea that suffering might never end for humans because his perceptions are not entirely supported.
Benét, Stephen Vincent.
By The Waters Of Babylon. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1990. Print. In this work of literature there is a young hero who is also a priest's son. This boy wants to become a priest some day during a period of burning and destruction. This boy is comparable to the young unnamed boy in the Road who is being natured by his father to become a hero. They both live in a similar era of struggles ad are expected to become strong as they
mature.
Avelar, Idelber. 'An Anatomy Of Marginality: Figures Of The Eternal Return And The Apocalypse In Chilean Post-Dictatorial Fiction'. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 23.2 (1999): n. pag. Web. Here two books by Diamela Eltit are analyzed with regards to post-dictatorial imperative to grieve over the dead and the consequent reactivation of collective memory. In this article, there are different manifestations of how mourning does not last forever. This representation is unlike the mourning in The Road, where the boy continues to mourn his dead father and sympathizes, for long periods of time, with the dead people they meet on their way to safer lifestyle.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print. The Road is set in a grim atmosphere. It is after apocalypse world where all signs of life are extinct. People and animals are starving, and predatory groups of savages wander around with pieces of human bodies stuck in their teeth. It is both oppressive and disheartening. McCarthy sets an atmosphere like one mediately after the world wars. It is not far-fetched to imagine the possibility of such a sad environment today. The novel tells a story of an unnamed man and his son in who struggle to survive in this horrific environment. I feel that the language in the novel is verbose. McCarthy is blunt in his descriptions. He uses repeated struggles and similar scenes forcing the reader to share the tough experience of the characters. I agree with the author that The Road is the picture of a post-apocalyptic world. I also agree with the opinion that suffering might never end, like the novel indicates through imagery at the very end. The author manages to combine happy moments with sad ones even though the sad ones takes the larger share. In addition, he accomplished his aim of having an audience that is glued to the book all along sine it is both engaging and informative. The author has a perception that the world is composed of more bad things than the good ones. This novel will be important to me as I explore the themes of post-apocalyptic fears and human struggles. However, I do feel that he leans too heavily on sadness …show more content…
than moving on after war. I am specially interested in picking up from where he left in regard to his idea that suffering might never end for humans because his perceptions are not entirely supported.
Benét, Stephen Vincent.
By The Waters Of Babylon. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1990. Print. In this work of literature there is a young hero who is also a priest's son. This boy wants to become a priest some day during a period of burning and destruction. This boy is comparable to the young unnamed boy in the Road who is being natured by his father to become a hero. They both live in a similar era of struggles ad are expected to become strong as they
mature.
Avelar, Idelber. 'An Anatomy Of Marginality: Figures Of The Eternal Return And The Apocalypse In Chilean Post-Dictatorial Fiction'. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 23.2 (1999): n. pag. Web. Here two books by Diamela Eltit are analyzed with regards to post-dictatorial imperative to grieve over the dead and the consequent reactivation of collective memory. In this article, there are different manifestations of how mourning does not last forever. This representation is unlike the mourning in The Road, where the boy continues to mourn his dead father and sympathizes, for long periods of time, with the dead people they meet on their way to safer lifestyle.