Joseph McCarthy

are evil people out there and he is definitely among them. “I never had to kill nobody and I am very glad of that fact. Some of the old time sheriffs would[ ]n[o]t even carry a firearm. A lot of folks find that hard to believe but it’s a fact” (McCarthy 63). Sheriff Bell is again making mention of the times changing in the midwest. He believes that evil is currently winning the battle and it is crushing his spirits but he is persevering. The concept of someone having no soul and being…

knowing they would live the same fate if caught, was ready to sacrifice himself to ensure the boy’s freedom. After realizing he couldn’t leave his son alone, he explained, “I was going to run. To try and lead them away. But I cant leave you [sic],” (McCarthy 113). If he had run, he would have been caught and tortured like the rest of them. By staying, he still may be caught if the men find them. However, the man would use the last bullet in the pistol to grant the boy a quick and painless death,…

Mark Smith’s ‘The road to winter’ (released in 2016) Is a story of a boy (Finn) in a post-apocalyptic world, where a disease has taken over. ‘The road to winter’ is a story about survival, love, and fear. With good preparation comes power. Ramage made quick decisions when the disease hit and that’s why throughout the book he is in a position of power. When a disease hits, especially as lethal as the one in the book, the littlest amount goes very far. In the second chapter Rose is amazed by what…

received the money, so he will follow his word. "You aint goin to help me are you? I done told you all I know to tell." (290, McCarthy) Then when Bell questioned the boy without the money the real story spilled. “He said that we didn’t know what he looked like. He give David a hundred dollar bill." The boy kept to his morals saying "I learned somthin from it" (293, McCarthy) and that he cannot say if David learned anything from this experience. While the other teenage told the truth about the…

proper word and punctuation choices the tone may be misinterpreted and the pace would be misleading. Cormac McCarthy uses tone, pace and vocabulary throughout his novel “The Road” to create suspense and add…

In every novel or series, the important characters will have a rite of passage. This is an event that will mark an important time in someone’s life. In the novel No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy one of the main characters, Llewelyn Moss, experiences his rite of passage. Through his choices, mistakes and adventures within the novel Llewelyn Moss proves himself as an all American outlaw hero. One of the most important characters in No Country for Old Men is Llewelyn Moss. Moss is a…

Self-Knowledge A road leads to a destination. In How To Read Literature like a Professor, Thomas Foster advises “When a character hits the road, we should start to pay attention, just to see if, you know, something’s going on there” (6). Given that Cormac McCarthy titled his novel, The Road, Foster provides a “heads-up” that something special is about to happen. The challenge is to dig beneath the surface, and discover the underlying gem hidden by the author. With Foster’s insight, this…

In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, a young boy and his father fight for their lives in a post-apocalyptic world. The book was published in September of 2006 and was written for the author’s son. “Good guys” vs “bad guys” is a recurring subject throughout the book, and the father teaches his son to be one of the few “good guys” that are left in the world they live in. The author shows that by keeping positive morals in the worst times of life, a strong character is developed to overcome any…

September 2017 The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, tells a gripping tale of a man and a boy surviving a post-apocalyptic journey. The man and the boy struggle to maintain their humanity on the road with the situations that they endure. Since the boy maintains his morality, despite the many dead bodies, vanished morals of mankind, he is able to outweigh the evil. McCarthy uses various techniques to show that even in the darkest times, goodness can prevail. McCarthy demonstrates this theme through the…

The Goodness Within The novel, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, was published in 2006 and won the Pulitzer prize in 2007. The Road is about a father and a son who have to try and find a way to survive a post-apocalyptic world. In this world, the will to survive causes a loss in morality and values. The choices people make in order to survive defines whether they’re good or evil, and these choices must be made everyday. As illustrated in The Road , the father and the boy set out making good…