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    The Road By Cormac McCarthy This book is dedicated to JOHN FRANCIS MCCARTHY When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath. He pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked

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    post-apocalyptic world‚ “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy follows a father and son’s struggle for survival through chaotic situations while walking towards south on “the road” with very limited resources‚ where they encounter numerous difficulties‚ including having to deal with cannibals who patrol the road; food shortages which cause them to have to go on for days without eating; and inclement weather conditions. The author uses the obstacles the father and son face on the road as a metaphor for the different

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    honeymooners. However‚ although much stupidity is demonstrated throughout this story‚ the Denali was also proven to be effective. On page 73‚ he says‚ “To prevent their tens from being ripped from their moorings and blown off that drop‚ climbers had taken to placing their shelters in deep bunkers surrounded by massive snow-block walls. This is something that was most likely addressed in the Denali‚ making the paragraph a more valid overall statement.

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    Prometheus “carried the fire” to humanity‚ his days are forever filled with torture. Similar to the situation that appears in the Cormac McCarthy’s novel‚ The Road‚ the main characters‚ a man and his son also “carry the fire” for the sake of mankind. “Carrying the fire”‚ a motif that Cormac McCarthy portrays throughout his novel‚ The Road‚ can be used to explain the reasoning behind why the two main characters‚ a man and his son continue to persevere in the novel’s harsh world. Perhaps the saying

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    This is my first time writing an essay about explicating poems‚ and actually I do not really like poetry‚ although they are beautiful and interesting because I often have a hard time to understand tem. In this essay‚ I choose two poems to explicate‚ which is “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Road Not Taken”. Through the process of completing this assignment‚ I have a lot of struggles such as the deeper meaning of each line‚ the grammar‚ the balance between two poems‚ and the figurative languages.

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    Poetry Essay Engl 102 “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost Spring 2013 Format A.P.A Thesis Statement: “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost‚ Shows the reader in symbolic form that everyone has choices to make in life. And that these choices affect the outcome of one’s life. I. Theme II. Setting III. Symbolic Setting IV. Mood a. Loneliness b. Fear of Regret c. Regret V. The Title is important VI. Literary Terms d. Imagery e. Symbolism

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    Which is Triumphant? In The Road‚ by Cormac McCarthy‚ it presents a dark view of humanity and its future. A boy and his father constantly mention the differences between “good guys” and “bad guys‚” trying their best to be the “good” ones. They are living during an apocalypse that is filled with evil‚ but the boy manages to do good deeds. Through the boy’s goodness‚ McCarthy shows that good ultimately triumphs over evil. Despite what the man thinks‚ the boy almost always convinces him to do what

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    Annotations for The Road Quotes from The Road Annotations “Charred and limbless trunks of trees stretching away on every side. Ash moving over the road and the sagging hands of blind wire strung from the blackened light poles whining thinly in the wind… He got the binoculars out of the cart and stood in the road and glassed the plain down there where the shape of a city stood in the greyness like charcoal drawing sketched across the waste.” (9) This is a brief section of the book that really

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    rebellious lifestyle sparked various different views; those that look up to them‚ and those that look down upon them. Jack Kerouac plays a major role in this time period pertaining to this lifestyle‚ authoring many works about it‚ one being On the Road. He uses the characters in this story to depict the diverse views on the Beatniks. This strong interpretation used throughout the novel sets the stage for many other authors writing on behalf of the Beat Generation. The characters he uses in this novel

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    perspective; the last to do so was Richard Poirier who‚ in 1982‚ examined the Emersonian influence in Burke’s theory of words and their relation to reality. My paper instead‚ uses a combined approach of ecocriticism and Burke’s theory of man in his essay “Definition of Man.” Kenneth Burke (1897 – 1993) was a literary and social critic of the twentieth century. During the Depression‚ Burke experienced first-hand the devastating effects of a society unchecked by its own technological and industrial advancements

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