Independent Novel Project By: Justin Ward The Road by Cormac McCarthy Characters: The Man- The Man‚ also known as the father in the book‚ travels throughout the novel with his young son. He feels like he is specifically on this world to protect his son‚ and he does anything to do so. Everything The Man does seems to be done out of consideration of the boy. Because of his devotion to the boy‚ The Man remains paranoid and cautious of others‚ especially of people he does not know. The Man’s love
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In the novel ’The Road’ the author Cormac McCarthy uses the idea of choice in order to portray how characters react in an apocalyptic situation. .The road is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia where of government and set of rules is abolished. The novel follows a young boy and his father as they traverse through rough terrain in order to seek refuge to the east. McCarthy challenges the reader to determine how the reader would react in this situation‚ to retain morals and a sense of hope by ’carrying
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slowly phasing out as time progresses. Cormac McCarthy supports this claim in No Country for Old Men by explaining how today’s society has taken a turn for the worse and how a new wave of evil has swept over the land‚ washing away the old values. McCarthy utilizes Sheriff Bell to represent the law and order‚ good morals‚ and honesty with which society was so rich with before the apocalyptic wave of evil (represented by Chigurh) took over. In addition‚ McCarthy also uses Sheriff Bell’s several monologues
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Charles Van Doren once said‚“I’ve learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be”. Often we tend to judge people off of what we first see in them; many times we let their words and actions describe them before we really get to know them and their intentions. One of the main characters‚ Papa‚ as expressed in the book‚ often denies helping others because he knows that it is best for him and his son’s survival. The book starts out with two unnamed characters‚ Papa and
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home duties‚ having no original ideas or thoughts of their own‚ while the status of the hero is elevated by destroying the savage and crude Native Americans. The American hero then finds love‚ and rides off into the sunset triumphant. Conversely‚ Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses challenges the romanticized American West with the use of setting‚
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war and violent colonization. Cormac McCarthy’s anti-Western novel‚ Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West‚ about a young man who ends up with a gang of men on a mission to hunt for American Indians following
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Cormac does an incredible job of portraying a young boys journey with his father through the post apocalyptic world. Cormac offers up information about what happened to the boy’s mother and a slight description of where they hope their journey will take them. This is about all the information that Cormac gives you‚ Cormac does an incredible job of leaving chunks of information out of the story to allow the reader to use their imagination. Cormac writes only half of the story
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MINING FOR MEANING: A STUDY OF MINIMALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE by JEREMY ROBERT BAILEY‚ B.A.‚ M.A. A DISSERTATION IN ENGLISH Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved Wendell Aycock Chair of the Committee Sara Spurgeon Scott Baugh Ralph Ferguson Dean of the Graduate School December 2010 Copyright 2010 Jeremy Robert Bailey Texas Tech University‚ Jeremy Robert Bailey‚ December 2010
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Brian Alvarez 1/11/13 The Road Literary Analysis Essay Throughout the novel The Road‚ Cormac McCarthy uses religious symbolism. This literary technique uses references to religion in the book. These references are also called Biblical Allusions. One biblical allusion in The Road directs to a named Ely and what he thinks about the world as it is now‚ and how humans symbolize God’s prophets on page 170. He does not believe in God. Ely then says that he sees the boy as a God
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Dickinson the author of both poems “Hope is a thing with feathers” mentions hope being a good thing to have in your soul‚ but “Hope is a subtle glutton” talks about hope being a glutton‚ meaning greedy eater. Dickinson’s poems somehow connects with Cormac McCarthy the author of the novel “The Road” that’s about a father and his son who have little hope that they would live another day. Hope can be explained a good or bad thing‚ but if you just a small amount of hope‚ you pushes yourself in a good direction
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