Post Apocalypse Fiction: The Road By Cormac Mccarthy
Author; Cormac McCarthy. I have not read any other book by this author.
Genre; Fiction, this book is a Post Apocalypse Fiction. The kind of readers who would this book are those who are interested in apocalyptic stories, those who are into books that have a suspenseful story but a happy ending. I do not read this genre of books. Personally, I am not a fan of these types of books.
Title; The title makes me want to put it back on the shelf and walk away from it. The title did not spark my interest at all. A title named The Road doesn’t spark anyone’s interest whatsoever. Though the title did not and probably would not spark anyone’s interest but the title does correspond with the story very well. In the story, they travel – the father and the son travel not able to find a forever home or people they trust forcing them to travel.
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The people would plead for the son and the man to free them or help them escape so they would not die but they refuse to help so they would not be eaten by the cannibals themselves. One of my favorite quotes from this story is; “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” -The Man
Evaluation; In particular, this book did not interest me in anyway shape nor form. This book is similar to other books of the same genre, you have your suspenseful moments, you caught in a huge predicament and them all hell breaks loose just to end with a happy loving ending. Logistically it will make you think, it will make you think of how the characters could’ve gone about a route in such a way that would avoid all chaos and there would not be as much judgment towards “the son”. The fact that they only had two bullets is what also makes the read think of how it was kind of dumb in a way in terms of
Genre; Fiction, this book is a Post Apocalypse Fiction. The kind of readers who would this book are those who are interested in apocalyptic stories, those who are into books that have a suspenseful story but a happy ending. I do not read this genre of books. Personally, I am not a fan of these types of books.
Title; The title makes me want to put it back on the shelf and walk away from it. The title did not spark my interest at all. A title named The Road doesn’t spark anyone’s interest whatsoever. Though the title did not and probably would not spark anyone’s interest but the title does correspond with the story very well. In the story, they travel – the father and the son travel not able to find a forever home or people they trust forcing them to travel.
Pictures/Book Jacket/Covering/Printing; The book …show more content…
The people would plead for the son and the man to free them or help them escape so they would not die but they refuse to help so they would not be eaten by the cannibals themselves. One of my favorite quotes from this story is; “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” -The Man
Evaluation; In particular, this book did not interest me in anyway shape nor form. This book is similar to other books of the same genre, you have your suspenseful moments, you caught in a huge predicament and them all hell breaks loose just to end with a happy loving ending. Logistically it will make you think, it will make you think of how the characters could’ve gone about a route in such a way that would avoid all chaos and there would not be as much judgment towards “the son”. The fact that they only had two bullets is what also makes the read think of how it was kind of dumb in a way in terms of