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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…

The proposed research study seeks to determine whether external motivation impacts the treatment compliance of young adult outpatient substance abuse clients. Traditionally, qualitative research was viewed as the standard methodology for counseling related research; however, Good (p. 3) quantitative methods have been shown most effective in exploring the relationships among variables in humanistic research (Balkin, 2014). For the purposes of the proposed research, the relationship among…

Kayla Miller Dr. Swan English 2333 13 December 2017 Cormac McCarthy Final The Road is a literary masterpiece. At its most basic level, it is a story 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…

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…

How does never differ to be from what never was? In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, A man and his son struggle to survive in a post apocalyptic world that continually tests their morality. However, the contrasting perspectives between these characters illustrates how life experiences can affect a person’s level of compassion. The man’s divided life experiences, pre and post apocalypse, allows him to more fully grasp the degradation of society, which makes him much less compassionate towards…

were destroyed along with the planet Earth. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, illustrates what its’ like for a young boy and his father surviving in a post-apocalyptic world without the presence of a woman. Throughout the novel with the use of allusions and vast imagery, women can be presented as ‘weak’ whereas it is the father and son who continue along this post-apocalyptic road. The way McCarthy presented women is very misogynistic. Throughout the journey, the father is constantly telling himself…

giving him the little food they have. They show him humility in a world that has none. This moment takes place in two different books. The Grapes of Wrath is a realistic fiction based during the Dust Bowl. The Road is a fiction book based during a post apocalyptic world. These books may sound completely unrelated but they share a few key similarities. The Grapes of Wrath and The Road are comparable because of setting, events, and theme. Firstly, the setting in the The Grapes of Wrath is…