Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” Submitted by M. Rajalakshmi Asst. Professor Department of English Sri Sairam Engineering College ABSTRACT Nature and literature have always been inseparable. Nature in a world of hyper-technologism‚ Transcendentalism‚ Ecofeminism‚ dystopia and apocalypse are some of the key areas that the American nature writers of today deal with. This paper aims at rendering an ecocentric reading of Cormac McCarthy’s post- apocalyptic novel‚ The Road. The Road narrates the journey
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End of the Road Willa Cather once said‚ “The end is nothing; the road is all.” But what does that mean? The most overt answer is that it doesn’t matter where one ends up in life‚ it’s how one gets there that counts. But‚ I think it goes deeper than that. To me‚ this means that the path you take is‚ in itself‚ simultaneously the beginning‚ middle‚ and end‚ and ultimately I agree with Cather‚ that the path is the focus not the end. The final terminus is the direct result of a string of decisions
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Fork in the Road The PBS documentary on ethics and values in America‚ it shows how Julia was being honored for her ongoing hard work to achieve bigger and better opportunities for many less fortunate students. Julia’s achievement was a milestone in her career. Finally‚ everyone in the ceremony toasted Julia and the sponsoring corporation‚ and the evening at the ceremony comes to end. Julia and her friend are now driving back to their homes. Julia is driving down a dark rural road. As Julia drives
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Techniques * Second person: you could have asked for better - directly at Bradman and suggests the affinity many people had for him * Ellipses: better... - expressing the sympathy for Bradman on his disappointment for being bowled out * List: rules to play by‚ winners‚ clear white flannels - giving a sense of order as opposed to the chaos and confusion during the depression * Personification: betrayed by your own game - suggesting the emotional involvement of Bradman‚ positioning
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Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms In the 1940s‚ Ernst Mayr coined the term Biological Species Concept that was subsequently widely embraced by the scientific community. The definition stated that "Species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups". Certain mechanisms are in place to prevent species from interbreeding with others and these are referred to as reproductive isolating mechanisms‚ which are biological
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Drawing on what you have learned about City Road‚ outline some of the inequalities on a street that you know. The purpose of this assignment is to outline some of the inequalities on a street that I know‚ namely Balham High Road‚ in order to draw comparisons to that on City Road. Balham High Road forms part of the A24 which runs from Clapham to Tooting‚ south west London. It appears a typical high street serving a local population of 21‚000 and provides a variety of retail options‚ banks and numerous
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A Bend in the Road In Nicholas Sparks’s novel A Bend in the Road‚ the main character‚ Miles Ryan‚ allows himself to be tormented by the killing of his wife‚ Missy. By assuming that it was cold blooded murder‚ Miles spent two years on the case‚ trying to find the possible "killer" of the hit and run‚ only to find that it was indeed an accident and nobody was at fault. After finding that the death of his wife was indeed an accident‚ Miles realized that by living in the past for the last two years
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Humanity and violence was the biggest theme in the story. Cormac McCarthy is the author of the book “The Road”. He’s one of the authors who write post-apocalyptic novels. He’s expressing that the world is in shambles with little humanity. In the book‚ there is a new world because the old world was way back in the past and now it has changed. There is dead everywhere‚ the world is dark because that is how the apocalypse is‚ and many humans have turn into savages trying to survive. There could be people
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The general topic of “All the Silks of China” is economic rise and fall of the Chinese Empire as a power in the Indian Ocean trade system (317). The central question is‚ “Why did China‚ when it was on the verge of a hegemonic role‚ withdraw from the Indian Ocean trade system(322)?”. Abu-Lughod systematically explains why China was capable of being a major world power during the 1300s. Her main pieces of evidence was China’s “technological sophistication” and its “Business Practices and Institutions”
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by Cormac McCarthy‚ The Road explains the story of a boy and his father living in a post-apocalyptic world‚ ridden with cannibalism and diseases threatening their lives. McCarthy has constructed a world around the boy and father‚ showing aspects of human nature to warn readers of the importance within trust and the will to survive in humanity. Conversely‚ detrimental effects that lie within these aspects of human nature are shown. Examples are specifically shown in The Road through boy and the father’s
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