Final Essay 5/31/12
Final Essay
A relationship is the way in which people are connected. A relationship can easily be started by a handshake or even from a conversation. The Road, Winsburg Ohio, and Tuesdays with Morrie are three novels that clearly show how a close bond or a relationship can take full control over ones actions. In The Road, author Cormac McCarthy uses the father and the son to illustrate the bond between the father and son, which is almost inseparable. The father believes that he has been entrusted by God to keep the boy safe and to protect him from any harm. In Winsberg Ohio, author Sherwood Anderson address how a very strong relationship ultatmently lead to the death of a spouse. Finally in Tuesdays with Morrie author Mitch Album illustrates the bond between a professor and his student, which in return leads him to changing his views in life.
In The Road, the father was determined to survive for the sake of his son knowing that without him, the boy would die. The fathers bond with his son is so strong that he’s extremely careful of other people. “I’m afraid for that little boy. I know but he’ll be alright. We should go get him, Papa. We could get him and take him with us”. (Pg. 86). In this quote, the father establishes how careful he is when there is any sort of threat towards his child. The father’s personality comes straight from the will to protect his son In Winesburg Ohio, the relationship between George Willard and his mother Elizabeth Willard is illustrated in chapter titled, “Mother”. In the chapter George Willard’s father yells at him for not making something of himself; this infuriates his mother who is very protective of George, who then agrees to murder her husband for yelling at him. However George comes to the realization that his father is right and to become successful and follow his dreams, he would have to leave the city. “Something father said makes it sure that I shall have to go away. He fumbled