Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy is known for his dense literary style and heavy use of metaphor, both of which tend to make his writing difficult to interpret. The passage I have chosen for explication comes at the beginning of Chapter 14 of Blood Meridian just after the disbanding of the Sociedad at Chiuaua because of the massacre of the unnamed city and soldiers. The men have just started westward and there is a price of eight thousand pesos on Glanton’s head. A majority of the passage is taken up by…

The Road augments and mirrors the simple, disorganized life and solitary conditions of the main characters’ journey. Through the use of the simple, unembellished statements and questions that make up the characters’ interaction and conversation, McCarthy gives the reader a clear sense of the undying tenderness and devotion that lives and grows between father and son in the face of impossible odds, without saying much of anything at…

Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road (2006) follows the journey of a father and a son as they walk through post-apocalyptic America. This new world is filled with nothing by solemn skies, death, and ash. On the road the pair stays away from the bad guys while hunting for rare food sources. The young boy is hopeful in this new world and helps the father believe that the worst is over. The father is only concerned about the nourishment and safety of his son and puts all his effort into preparing the…

Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, shows how a young boy grows to be independent. This makes me believe that McCarthy’s novel is a coming-of-age story. Through various aspects of his novel, McCarthy shows how humans are hybridized; we are a mix between dependency and autonomy and that determines our identity. As we learn, grow, and mature, we must find a balance between the spectrum of independence and community. In The Road, the boy was depicted as dependent on the father. If the boy needed…

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a post apocalyptic story about a father and son’s journey to the south. It is set in mid 20th century America. The desolate land is covered by a thick layer of ashy clouds, causing the temperature to drop. At the start, we find the Father and Son sleeping in a wooded area. They begin their journey on the ash covered road. The pair walks with their cart and sacks for miles upon miles. Stopping only for short nights of sleep or to scavenge for food. Their goal is…

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…

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a story of a father and his son and their journey through the desolate wasteland of what we assume to be America. We follow their story in this extinct Earth of a land filled of grim outcomes, ashen landscapes, and the devoid of living animals and vegetation. The father and son are presented as the “good guys” who carry the fire. Most of their human encounters are survivors who have turned to cannibalism and scavengers who are only concerned with their…

barren wasteland full of ash and debris. Although there are a few survivors, without law and order, they must become the indefatigable defenders of their own lives. The will to survive and level of determination depicted by the characters provides McCarthy with the opportunity to create a story of hope and inspiration, however, the tale is solemn and harrowing. Throughout the novel, the father’s primary concern is his son. Although gaunt and ailing, he must fight for their existence. The…

love and the connection as well as the true meaning of father and son even through the darkest of times. This iconic novel was written by the world renown Cormac McCarthy, who typically writes out of the ordinary, dark, and menacing books and is also known for several other of his works including Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men. McCarthy published this novel on September 26th, 2006 and took the world by storm with a whole new type of novel that made its readers do more than just…

Golden Hair and Yellow Parkas The Road by Cormac Mccarthy is a harrowing journey of day-to-day survival that speaks to every individual in a sense. It sculpts subconscious feelings of our insecurity of hope for the future through symbolism by color. Yellow becomes a flag, it is the signal fire for objects that correlate to hope. Use of this color conveys the ideal of optimism in the face of loss. It is the ability to continue in a world of nothing. Yellow is the first color mentioned following…