Cormac McCarthy

The language of Toni Morrison or Cormac McCarthy became much more interesting and impressive because I was looking at and listening to the words with a more educated lens. After putting the time into my own sentences, I realized how much a good writer must care about his work, right down to…

Morally ambiguous characters make it difficult for a reader to define them as either good or evil. These characters are found in several novels, one is found in All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. John Grady is the main character of this novel, and throughout the story, he varies from displaying good and evil characteristics. In the beginning Grady is a good character, but as the novel goes on, he leans more towards being evil, then in the end, he redeems himself. In the beginning of the…

A theme prominent in all four novels, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, Silence by Shusaku Endo and most importantly, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, is loss and death. Each novel allowed me to understand different meanings of death and the importance of the value of life. Starting with Things Fall Apart, Okwonko lives his life cowardly in anger and tries his entire life to be the opposite of his father who was gentle, resulting in his suicide. In Silence,…

struggles women face in a patriarchal society. The reason I related so well to this novel was because I had just started to get into the feminist movement and was still trying to find my way. The last book I read in high school was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The novel focuses on a father and son surviving in a post-apocalyptic America. It is the bleakest book I have ever read, and the desolation throughout the novel is far superior than the beauty that is also present in the…

Humanity Humans are hopeful animals with incredible imaginations who throw away their powers and leave a chaotic mess behind. Also, humanity is a historic repetition and is full of people who know what they want and believe in but are weak minded and cowards. People have their own views on how life should be. But sitting back is not going to do anything and that is all we do. We sit back and talk about the problems of the country or even the world but we just let it happen anyway. We ultimately…

It seems that O'Connor wanted to make her characters seem disposable as if their life has no meaning since they will die. Meanwhile, Cormac McCarthy, “No Country for Old Men” author, wanted to leave Chigurh with just that as his name, without any physical attributes' given, as it makes him seem more like an idea than a person. McCarthy chose a name that was untraceable to create a mystery or mystery killer. The film adaptation, though you see the actor, still tried to keep this aspect…

inhumanity to man and greed, will be discussed as primary causes of conscience crisis that lead to the human predicament in general. The two themes are dealt widely by novelists from many perspectives. From those novelists are John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy who wrote about these themes, both of them in his own way, to convey and to touch people's real lives. “Steinbeck has read and studied deeply, dissecting and examining the various facets of human behavior, including what Wordsworth calls…

Introduction In the novel, The Road, published in 2006, Cormac McCarthy displays an unbreakable bond between father and son, in a post-apocalyptic world. The Man sees his son as being his only sign on hope in the world at all. The exact setting isn’t given, nor is the names of the characters, but this is to show that this event may as well be happening to anyone and anywhere in the world. To begin, the character known as “The Man” wakes up in the wood with “The Boy”, they are both freezing and…

Sierra Moore Journal 3 An Abundance of Katherines -John Green (Finished +64) (+52 from No Country for old men -Cormac McCarthy) Inanimate objects are nothing compared to the preciousness of animate life, yet they impact everyone’s lives greatly. In An Abundance of Katherines Colin, the main character, lives with Lindsey and her mother along with his friend Hassan. Together they help each other grow and learn; via hog hunting, cave exploring, and late night conversations. Overall the most…

Interestingly, the point of comparison here is not only the differential treatment of a very common set of dystopian themes by the authors, but also the political, sociological and economic milieu that makes these dystopian utterances a possibility. Thus, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) showcases a post-apocalyptic world devoid of vegetation (environment) and human values that may be more immediately located in a world where global warming and ecological destruction seem to be the only…