Joseph McCarthy

a boy and his papa try to maintain humanity while finding their way through broken America after a devastating catastrophe. McCarthy argues that people isolate themselves out of fear in order to seek protection from the greater dangers in the world around them. Papa and the boy physically both isolate and de-isolate themselves from the dark world geographically. McCarthy compares the Sea to an unknown world to show that the once shining Sea that used to bring happiness now brings mood of only…

Despite the fact that death is inevitable in this time and human beings are conforming to either cannibalism or suicide, McCarthy creates two strong, independent characters with the fortitude to persevere through the most dangerous…

The road of trials is seen in The Stranger, Into the Wild, and “Richard Cory”. In “Richard Cory” the road of trials is seen when Richard walks through the street saying good-morning because he is facing people to see if he really wants to give up on society and die instead. Into the Wild depicts Christopher’s journey and his trials are said to be when he must hitchhike his whole way to Alaska. The Stranger has a literal road of trials when he is placed in jail and Meursault must go through…

The book, The Road by Cormac McCarthy displays a very powerful underlying message throughout the book. Love is something that we humans need in order to survive in this day an age anymore. Our world has become so destructed that we we need love in order to have hopes for the future and to keep us going in our everyday lives, without love there is no reason to look forward to the future such as the message in this book is showing us. After an apocalypse had struck, the man and they boy thought…

With so many dystopian novels and movies, not many address their beliefs, they mostly stick to how they survive. Cormac McCarthy, a great author, in 2006, published the book The Road. The Road is a novel placed in a post-apocalyptic world where cannibalism is common place. McCarthy gives us 2 characters in his book, an unnamed man and his son who consider themselves the good guys in this world. They continue their journey south through death in search of hope. In a world of ash and cannibalism,…

humanity fade away into oblivion. This world is literally “dead”(%^%), life as we know it is over and civilisation is beyond saving. To complicate the situation, however, McCarthy infuses hope into this dystopian world. This creates an illusion of hope where in fact, there is none for the characters in the book. In The Road, Cormac McCarthy uses the love the man and woman have for their son to complicatedly delineate the hopelessness of their dystopian world. Firstly, the representation of the…

help the man show kindness to others. In the novel, McCarthy separates the society into two categories, “The good guys” and “The…

Are you there?” (McCarthy 11). The presence of vast amounts of ash greatly contributes to the progression of the plot through affecting the characters’ sight and health, yet the cold weather and thunderstorms also create a significant impact by creating additional complications…

faith, life has no meaning. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Papa and the boy journey through a post-apocalyptic time where they seem to have no purpose, but they still carry the fire and keep going. Faith in God provides purpose and hope, even when all has been lost. A life without faith is a life without purpose. The man, “Knew only that only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke” (McCarthy 5). The man sees the sanctity in his child, and…

The author, Lenny Bernstein, writes about how a mother of seven children was against vaccinating her children until all of them got the whooping cough disease. Bernstein currently writes for the Washington Post and typically covers medicine and health. He attended Trinity College where he studied American Studies, and he also graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan where he studied American Culture. In this post Bernstein seems like he is against the anti-vaccination…