“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Friedrick Nietzshe). In the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy the main characters must face this everyday Having ambitions, goals, and dreams is both exciting and one of the most difficult things humans will ever experience. Along the why mankind will also learn some of the hardest truths along the way. Showing us what a post-apocalyptic world can do to our present day humans, cultured environment, and accomplishments we can reach. Cormac McCarthy brilliantly uses a father’s love toward his son to symbolize hope and preparation to survive a dangerous world.
The Road starts off after some unknown world devastating event that has taken place leaving world in ash, loneliness …show more content…
Along the way they suffer from extreme cold, lack of food and water, supplies and other dangerous people on the road who may try to kill and eat them in this time of desperation. The man and boy do have several major discoveries along the way due to there risky behavior such as, finding a bomb shelter stuffed with canned foods, water, and other supplies to keep them alive. They stay there a couple of days eating well, staying warm, and sometimes sleeping the whole day, but had to head back to the road because they weren’t getting anything done. We later find out that the man is taking the boy on this long voyage to try and make it to the coast. The man thinks if they reach the coast everything will be all right. Once they get to the coast it is a disappointment, but they did have another discovery when the man spots a wrecked ship in the water. The man takes it upon himself to go into and search the ship and inside more food, water, and a flare gun. After this uplifting event disaster hits the boy is sick for days, the man stays by the boy’s side doing everything he can to keep him warm and alive, during this …show more content…
As to were the next sentence can be in third person with the narrator using phrases such as “he’d reach out”. By having the third person narration you can infer that there is another source that may know what will be happening. The constant switch between narrators gives McCarthy freedom to go from character to character, to explain things as each character may see situations differently like when the boy wanted to save the old man on the road and take him with them, and his father just thought he would eat all there food and wanted to leave him behind. The book is mostly from the fathers point of view, toward the end of the novel when the man is on his final breaths the narration switches over to the son. Due to the father's death the narrator becomes less reliable because of the boys positivity and uplifting
The Road starts off after some unknown world devastating event that has taken place leaving world in ash, loneliness …show more content…
Along the way they suffer from extreme cold, lack of food and water, supplies and other dangerous people on the road who may try to kill and eat them in this time of desperation. The man and boy do have several major discoveries along the way due to there risky behavior such as, finding a bomb shelter stuffed with canned foods, water, and other supplies to keep them alive. They stay there a couple of days eating well, staying warm, and sometimes sleeping the whole day, but had to head back to the road because they weren’t getting anything done. We later find out that the man is taking the boy on this long voyage to try and make it to the coast. The man thinks if they reach the coast everything will be all right. Once they get to the coast it is a disappointment, but they did have another discovery when the man spots a wrecked ship in the water. The man takes it upon himself to go into and search the ship and inside more food, water, and a flare gun. After this uplifting event disaster hits the boy is sick for days, the man stays by the boy’s side doing everything he can to keep him warm and alive, during this …show more content…
As to were the next sentence can be in third person with the narrator using phrases such as “he’d reach out”. By having the third person narration you can infer that there is another source that may know what will be happening. The constant switch between narrators gives McCarthy freedom to go from character to character, to explain things as each character may see situations differently like when the boy wanted to save the old man on the road and take him with them, and his father just thought he would eat all there food and wanted to leave him behind. The book is mostly from the fathers point of view, toward the end of the novel when the man is on his final breaths the narration switches over to the son. Due to the father's death the narrator becomes less reliable because of the boys positivity and uplifting