Cormac McCarthy

When thinking about the theme of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, many subjects come to mind. Throughout the story we see death, violence, and darkness. However, what is the most apparent throughout the story is love. The theme that comes out on top and is the most obvious, is the theme of love conquers all. The love that the little boy and his father share is incepretable. They face so many challenges as they are traveling down the road like, the “bad men,” illnesses, and even mental struggle, but…

Imagine losing every material possession once held dear, only to be placed in a world all too dark, desolate, and dead. Pain and suffering become a new normal as a grasp on uncertain life loosens and hope becomes a treasured rarity. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a touching tale, mirroring the aforementioned circumstance with a poetic and realistic nature. A man and his young boy are the two main characters, unencumbered by others and remaining nameless throughout the entire book. The story…

him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.” (3) Cormac McCarthy greets the reader with opening lines, stern, humorless, and a tone that sets the tone for the entire story. A nameless man and his son are the main characters in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Set in a post-apocalyptic time the man and his son struggle to survive on a daily basis. This piece of realistic fiction raises many…

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, disregards many standards put in place by other writers. None of the characters have proper names, dialogue is not put in quotes, and the characters are not complex. Complex means that the character goes through some sort of change. It’s a very common literary element. In this story there are two main characters and neither of them have an apparent change in personality throughout the book. The Road seems to have no complex characters whatsoever, and that’s a…

Throughout the novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the geographical, cultural, and physical surroundings help shape the morality of the little boy. The Road takes place during a post-apocalyptic world, in which morals and humanity is questioned through the actions of cannibals, rapists, and murderers. The man and the boy go on a quest that carries on throughout the novel to head further down south in hopes of finding warmer weather. As Thomas C. Foster stated in How to Read Literature Like a…

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a story between the protagonists, a father and his son, versus a post-apocalyptic world. The father and son leave their house after the wife shoots herself and heads south, where it is warmer. Throughout their journey, they meet survivors whom the father does not trust and it shows. Some of the survivors are terrible people who eat other people or murder others and some are thieves who are forced to steal to survive such as the thief who tried to steal the cart…

(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…

The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel about a nameless father and son who are traveling to the coast in the south. The author, Cormac McCarthy, neglects to inform the reader as to the causes of the apocalypse but it is inferred that it was caused by man. The nameless son was born in this world, not knowing what a pre-apocalyptic world was like but only knowing the drained world he was born into. Before the son’s mother committed suicide due to the extreme environment their family was put in, she…

Living in harmony with people during a time of despair is like trying to have 5 people live off one apple for a week; it will not work.. The Road written by Cormac McCarthy tells the heartfelt story of Papa and his boy making a growling journey to the East coast. Papa and the boy live in a world that lacks compassion: though they resist the temptation of sinful acts and live honest lives. Maintaining sensitivity on the road is not easy, but the man knows showing kindness and tolerance to the…

The novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy follows a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic world. They are forced to endure many tough situations, which make them test themselves and continually push their limits. Over time, the boy starts to become detached from the horrors he witnesses, which shows that morals are shed when one sees too many cruel acts. In the beginning of the book, the boy is desperately trying to hold onto his morals, no matter what he sees. Along the road Papa and the boy…