In Chapter 4, Heyman discusses the narrow view of the virtual wall, advanced technology and surveillance used to protect the border. Urrea (2004) illustrates this point, in Chapter 1 of The Devil’s Highway. He describes the Welton Police Station, the building is deteriorating, but on the inside, sits a “high tech command center. " The computer system connected to the GPS satellites operates 24 hours, 7 days a week. The reader is able to gauge a picture of the building, technology and how the virtual wall develops.…
Cruelty in “The Road” What is cruelty? Cruelty is feeling indifferent to the suffering of others. Throughout Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, each antagonist the man and the boy encounter share a variety of traits that are commonly found in sociopaths; such as lack of remorse, lack of empathy, shallow emotions and cruelty. Throughout the world in which The Road takes place, cruelty has evolved from its basic sociopathic trait into second nature for survivors in this post-apocalyptic environment.…
Rock Mills and Rudys pizza Fireworks in the summer, we woke the neighbors Late July nights And day long hikes First time burned in the Honda Civic Going 100 in the snow We crashed, oh no That half built tree house destroyed in the storm exploring was the norm Reached the top of Old Rag and White Oak And then there was Libby God I hated her But you grew And moved away Take me back to the good old days.…
The damage and trauma of the first world war had devastating impacts for countless individuals all across the world. It caused the destruction of entire cities and claimed the lives of millions. Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road focuses on the stories of three Cree-Canadians and their experiences during the great war both on the battlefield and the home front. In order to shed light on the often historically disregarded sacrifices and contributions of First Nations people during the first world war, Joseph Boyden uses symbolism to illustrate the impact of trauma from the First Nation’s perspective in his novel. The number three represents Xavier’s difficulty to reconcile the acts of war he commits and experiences, The lynx embodies Niska’s resilience in the face of…
“The Highway” Throughout “The Highway,” Bradbury utilizes an isolated setting in order to show a new perspective of the entire novel and enhance the purpose and overall idea of the passage. An example of Bradbury’s usage of isolation is Hernando’s socially disconnection. On page, Bradbury explains how the couple could not go an hour without a traveller stopping they can and asking if they can take a picture of the two. The couple is viewed as outsiders, due to their lack of social interaction, that could make an interesting picture. Bradbury includes such details in order to increase the character’s sense of solitude.…
In the book, The Devil’s Highway, the author, Luis Alberto Urrea truly captures the emotions of the reader. In the initial chapters on the book, I was confused. I felt as if there was a hidden purpose in the writing. I felt like I was being swayed to believe in the cause of one type of people versus another. By the middle of the book I realized that this book was an honest recollection of events by all parties involved.…
Religion Without faith, life has no meaning. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Papa and the boy journey through a post-apocalyptic time where they seem to have no purpose, but they still carry the fire and keep going. Faith in God provides purpose and hope, even when all has been lost. A life without faith is a life without purpose. The man, “Knew only that only that the child was his warrant.…
And if you let someone crush your dream of being where you want to be, that string will be lost forever. And you can't get it back. A line from the poem is "And we'll go where the chalk white arrows go", This quote conveys the theme because since he/she never gave up they are just going where life and the road takes them. In the poem, "Where the Sidewalk Ends" By Shel Silverstein, She illustrates "And we'll go where the chalk white arrows go"'.…
The ember flickers and smoulders in the breeze, blackening the wood, illuminating the ravaged landscape in a post-apocalyptic world of decay. Fire sometimes is seen as a destructive weapon devouring everything in its path. However, in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, fire not only maintains the father and his son’s lives under harsh natural condition but also acts as a beacon of hope and goodness on the father and his son’s journey toward the south. McCarthy repeats the idea of “carrying the fire” many times throughout the novel to symbolize the inextinguishable hope in their heart, which propels them to physically fight against nature, keep their morality intact and inherit the civilization of humanity that once has collapsed. At the beginning…
In The Road is a quote that reads “No list of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later.…
The song continues with the rhetorical questioning of where people are and what their next move is because it is seen that their future is planned out in incredible detail. The song is meant to point out that life is what you make of it, so why not relax and live it in an ideal way. The Transcendentalist author, Thoreau, did not support living life based off of a plan, “We live meanly like ants [...] our life is frittered away by detail.” (Thoreau 203), because it meant it was being wasted away. The average lifespan is not long enough for us to see what all the world has to offer us.…
The award-winning novel, The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, portrays the man’s unconditional love for his son in the post-apocalyptic world. At first glance, the novel portrays a hopeless, desolate ambience and elements of despair seem to greatly outweigh elements of hope throughout the novel. Upon further analysis of the text, it is evident that McCarthy uses symbols to portray unconditional love and hope, thus making The Road a novel of hope. Throughout the novel, there is a constant battle between good and bad.…
Great job on your post! I also chose Romanticism as the literary movement that "Fast Car" represents, so it was nice to read your thoughts on why you believed this song best represents this specific "ism". I loved it when you explained how your second quote referenced the freedoms of a bird. I had never thought about it like that. When you mentioned this, it changed my perspective on this song lyric (just like Brielle had mentioned).…
"King George's men came marching, up to the old inn door." (Part 2, Line 6) They were not meant to be. The Highwayman is a juvenile, should be with each other. Bess is not a juvenile.…
It isn’t a question that people pretend to know what they are doing a lot of the time. In other words, they “fake it ‘til they make it.” Not only is this a common occurrence in everyday life but it is also a common theme of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The Father in The Road is the key example of faking it ‘til you make it by giving a false sense of hope to motivate and push his son to keep going, he taught his son to follow in his footsteps, and contradictory to how you would think the story would end, the father ends up dying so technically he did not make it but he got his son to “carry the torch.”…