God the Son

In Cormac McCarthry’s novel The Road, the man, who believes God has entrusted him to protect the boy from the evils and dangers of the world, is in a constant struggle between life and death. McCarthy depicts the man as a hardy character with a sensitive side towards his son. The man, struggling to survive for the sake of the boy, is ruthless, suffering, and protective. If he is pushed to his limit, the man can be ruthlessly violent. For instance, he and the boy were hiding behind an…

The Road is a post-apocalyptic tale which follows the journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months. The pair trek across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization, leaving a 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…

In the poem, “Those Winter Sundays”, Robert Hayden plays on various denotations of the word “office” to make clear that love often means taking on duties and responsibilities. The word appears in the last sentence of the poem and it’s ambiguous definition leaves the reader with room to interpret the word with various denotations: “What did I know, what did I know / of love’s austere and lonely offices?” (13-14). This ambiguity therefore holds a great deal of influence over the reading of the…

Death of a Salesman, a tragedy written by Arthur Miller, tells the tale of Willy Loman, an ordinary man that is haunted by his missteps. The play details the downward spiral that Willy falls into as a result of his own failure and the failure of his son. Even though Willy is the main character, he is defined by the people that surround him in his everyday life. Willy’s entire life is defined by the fact that he never has the opportunity to receive advice from a fatherly figure. Ben, Willy’s…

been here?’’ D.M.: ``I’ve been here for two months and half.’’ Me: ``How did you come to be in here?’’ D.W: `` I was feeling like I couldn’t deal with my life, I just found that my child was switched at birth, and that someone stole my identity. My son is the one that called the…

York. The play’s protagonist Willy Loman is a multifaceted character in that he is a salesman, a husband, and a father of two. Willy desperately wants his eldest son Biff to follow in his footsteps and become a salesman. Willy’s wife Linda is always supportive of him even though Willy is not always respectful towards her. Their youngest son, Hap, adores his father Willy and is always seeking recognition for his achievements, which are more or less what Willy would like for Biff to be doing.…

the Forest True Son deserved the sentence his father gave him because of the laws True Son had broken. True son was ungrateful, cruel, and disrespectful in all his choices. These actions make such a sentence of being banned just and not overly harsh. Cuyloga made the right choice in banning True Son for the acts he committed because of disrespect, ungratefulness, and cruelness. True Sons sentence was not just but deserved and there are many reflective reason that prove True Sons sentence was…

“He visits the sins of the father upon the children” and this is particularly true in the case of Willy and Biff Loman. If this proverb is true it bids ill for Biff Loman, whose father’s perverse interpretation of the American Dream ensures that his son will grow up to be grossly maladjusted and ill prepared for life as an adult. Biff is prone to narcissism, to kleptomania and is a broken individual. Biff’s social maladjustment is caused by his father’s superficial and delusional view of the…

Jesus’ Son Book Review Jesus’ Son is a novel written by Denis Johnson. The genre is Fiction. It is 133 pages long and is about 14 dollars. This novel was published in 1992. This book is a novel full of different short stories that make up the chapters. The narrator is an unknown drug user that is just shifting us through different incidents that he has either witnessed or been a part of. There is no exact theme, in my opinion. Each chapter has a different story to tell with one thing in common;…

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…