Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

In the novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, a young boy and his father travel along a stretch of roadways amidst a post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once the United States of America; with the goal of making it to the coast to establish what they hope to be a better and safer life. The journey to the edge of what was once a peaceful and prosperous nation is a long and grueling trek. Along the way the duo encounter fiends that threaten their safety and well being. Though life of any kind is rare…

The novel “The Road”, written by Cormac McCarthy, is a story talking about a father and a son in a world that everything is totally destroyed. For them, it is an unprecedented catastrophe. Even though the condition is hard to have the good characteristics in human nature, the father still makes his best effort to protect his son and protect his son’s good characteristics. The father died at last, but his son does live because of his protection. In the movie “Life is Beautiful”, the father Guido…

Desertion The ad that I chose to do my paper on is an ad that is promoting a new show. The ad is old because now the show is on its 7th season but, at the time they were trying to convey an image of what the world would look like if the world was overtaken by a zombie apocalypse. I think they got the point across. The image is controversial because nobody really knows what the world really would look like if there were to be a zombie apocalypse. Throughout the image there appears to be many…

constantly pops up throughout the book. McCarthy first presents this question through the mother of the boy in a flashback. This is where she decides to kill herself after giving birth. This triggers the man to thus be questioning life in this new post-apocalyptic world. The man claims that his boy “carries the fire” and is a sign of god 's’ existence, this view pushes the man to continue his journey, but as demonstrated on page 12 by this quote “ You forget what you want to remember, and…

Dark, dusty, lonely. Afraid, tired, hungry. Words that describe the life of those living in the faded, deceased country of what was once America. The Road by Cormac McCarthy, depicts the long and difficult post-apocalyptic journey a man and his son endure. Papa and the Boy have roles that completely reverse by the end of the book. They also go back and forth from maturity and growth when the Boy literally grows older, and when choosing right from wrong. The journey begins with Papa reaching…

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a story of a father and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Together, they walk through a wasteland searching for necessities essential for survival, while trying to avoid roaming bands of cannibals. Along the way their morals are revealed in the choices they make to survive. McCarthy develops the theme of morality by showing the conflict between the boy’s and father’s moral impulses, especially when moral choices affect their own and others’…

Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, is a bleak parable chronicling the journey of a father and son across a desolate, post-apocalyptic America. McCarthy’s work typically focuses on themes such as human nature, theodicy and the evil within society, with an overriding nihilistic worldview. The Road follows through on this, with McCarthy prophesying our destruction as a consequence of these societal flaws, and reminding modern readers of how much we have to lose if we remain on this path of…

about a man and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. However, the real story is so much more than that. The Road tells of love and heartache, humanity at its most primal level, and how fragile the ideas of society truly are. The Road is important because it's one of very few novels that gives a raw, honest look at what the world would look like after an "apocalyptic" event. Many books consider things such as zombies or aliens as apocalyptic, but The Road hints very heavily at…

In the post-apocalyptic novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy outlines a gray desolate story about and man and his son travelling a road riddled with macabre obstacles to reach the Southern Coast. The man and the boy begin travelling because it will soon be winter, and winter will be especially inclement, the world is covered in ash, which creates a dark blanket over the Earth. For, before the birth of the boy a never identified catastrophe ravaged the earth with fire, leaving few…

In The Road, Cormac McCarthy portrays the story of a father and son duo surviving in a post-apocalyptic world that has been devastated by an unknown catastrophic event. The father and son’s journey southward towards the coast is horrific and harsh encompassed by external obstacles and internal conflict of malnutrition, thievery, and cannibalism. The two depend on each other to maintain their sanity and morality as they forge on in the destitute setting of the road. Although the young boy is born…