Roger Caron’s life consisted of a series of incarcerations and escapes from some of Canada’s toughest institutions. His book‚ Go-Boy! is an interesting read‚ especially for those pursuing a career within the criminal justice system. He recounts in detail his life of crime from the time he entered it at the age of just sixteen in 1954 until he was thirty-four in 1972. Caron grew up as a rebellious loner in a poor and violent household with little compassion and constant arguments. He seemed destined
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Sal Paradise‚ the young writer from Paterson‚ New Jersey decides to begin his lifetime adventure across the United States. Accompanied by his crazy and unpredictable friend Dean Moriarty‚ Sal looks for the true meaning of life. Driving stolen cars‚ hitchhiking‚ on their way to the West coast‚ both men look for adventures‚ alcohol‚ drugs and unbounded love. Their wild journey creates the unbreakable bond between them‚ which gives rise to the whole new generation. “On The Road” is an autobiographic
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Road by Cormac McCarthy‚ a man and his son fight to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic world. They are following a road headed south‚ and along the way they encounter countless obstacles both physical and emotional. While the son displays innocence‚ looking to help the few people they come across‚ the man is conscious of the change from the world he once knew to now. Throughout the novel‚ by portraying the boy as a God like figure and highlighting characters’ opinions on religion‚ McCarthy shows that
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In the article‚ “The Immortal Horizon‚” published in the May‚ 2011 issue of Believer Magazine‚ the author‚ Leslie Jamison‚ shares her experiences and adventures with some abstract‚ although very persistent; characters as she spectates a marathon in Tennessee known as “The Barkley Marathons.” On June 10‚ 1977‚ James Earl Ray attempted to escape from the Bushy Mountain State Penitentiary‚ but was apprehended fifty-four hours later after only traversing eight miles. After hearing this‚ a man known as
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Revolutionary Road was a profound movie. This film portrays the malaise that had lied behind the American Dream during the mid-1950s. During that era‚ the image of the nuclear family living in suburbia where the man is the bread-winner and the woman as the domesticated housewife was considered as the dominant idea constructed by a patriarchal society. This film tracks the unraveling of April and Frank Wheeler‚ a couple who had unwantedly settled with two children living in suburbia unable to get
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All Roads Lead Nowhere In both "Sawdust" by Chris Offutt and "Hunting Husbands" by Jo Carson‚ we see characters willing to go to great lengths to try and get what they think they want in life. Nonetheless‚ they appear to be trapped in an endless cycle‚ and it appears for them as though all roads lead nowhere. Despite the effort each makes to try to escape the life given to them‚ the battle they are fighting is one in which they seem destined to lose. "Sawdust" takes place in a small Appalachian
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Virtues‚ Vices‚ Love‚ Risks: “The Highwayman” and Its Lessons for the Modern World It is a common perception in the world that love is very dangerous. This philosophy is one of the greatest themes in the poem‚ “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes. In this poem‚ the highwayman‚ a robber on the roads‚ comes to an inn to meet with Bess‚ the daughter of the landlord. He leaves her but promises to return. However‚ he does not‚ and while he is away‚ Bess is attacked by the king’s men who await her lover. Bess
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In the short story “By the Waters of Babylon” written by Stephen Vincent Benet there is a post apocalyptic setting where there is the aspect of the fear of the unknown. In The Guardian’s article about the bombing of Guernica‚ Spain‚ the reporter describes what they had witnessed when visiting the destroyed town. There was fire‚ ruin‚ death‚ and catastrophe interpreted in both writings. Is this a coincidence? I don’t believe this to be so because of the fact that they both deal with a lot of the
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Moral Absolutism – The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a novel based in a post-apocalyptic world. It revolves around the life of a father and a son who are struggling to survive. Everything around them is destroyed‚ filled with ash and stripped of life yet the two continue to move south‚ towards the sea hoping for better days to come. Their lives are lived in a constant state of fear. Every day spent scavenging for food as they are constantly moving‚ trying to stay unnoticed
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Death because of a person’s actions is also elaborated in another novel by Cormac McCarthy‚ The Road. This novel unlike No Country for Old Men portrays this idea on a different spectrum.For instance in NCFOM death is awoken by the voluntary choice of Moss‚ but in The Road death is inevitable making their actions a matter of living‚ and if one mistake is made then they will perish with the rotting earth. Reading the descriptive novel‚ The Road‚ I was felt that sense that i was actually with the father
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