The Road Back

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…

campsite in South Grand Canyon, loud, pleasant music turned to static. I walked from the front of the RV to the end and elevated my phone to detect a signal. Even the navigation showed blank. It was close to midnight and we had been rolling down the bumpy road for almost four hours. Endless. There were no reflecting signboards, no streetlights. We were the only light source during these hours of driving. Two beams of headlights broke dauntlessly around the curve of ghat. The dashboard pointed at…

Ever since Chevy and Dodge came out with a truck to challenge the Ford Model T truck back in early 1900’s, there has been a competition to see what he best farm truck really is. I have been involved in farming since I was born. I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my parents that dates back to 1915. I have seen in my short life time, a problem that every farmer faces, what truck to buy. What a farmer needs out of a truck is completely different from any other occupation. They…

I don’t like bikers they stress me out. They should be restrained to the sidewalks where I don’t have to deal with them. When bikers are on the road traffic rules can not be followed correctly. And that’s because portland bikers don’t care about them. Cars are dangerous and because…

and saw that my finger was dislocated and off to the side at a weird angle . I knew that if my mom or my grandma saw it they would freak out, so I decided to pop it back in myself. I braced myself with all the strength I had to keep calm. Grabbing my finger with a firm grip I pulled up and snapped it back to the side, As I fought back a scream a thought raced through my head like what if it was broken and I just made it…

The Woman on Wendover Road - Draft It was a foggy October night, and Martin O’Neil was driving back from work to his new home in the countryside. Fully focused on his driving, and straining his eyes to see the street names in the darkness, Martin was startled a loud ringing noise. I glanced at my phone that I had previously thrown onto the passenger seat of my car, curious to see who was calling me so late in the night. I was quite surprised to see my beloved wife’s name on the caller ID, as…

wrinkled trees bordering it and the ridged ground which marks those who walked down that trail before? Well, I have and still do. Ten years ago, on my way back home after running some errands, I walked through a trail that was new to me. I was in an adventurous mood and I decided to divert from the main, busy road. I stood at a junction of the familiar road and the unfamiliar trail, ignoring the eyes and frown covered faces of those staring at me. They were…

The Road: Sympathy in a World that Offers None Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road is a tale of a father and son’s journey of survival in a post-apocalyptic holocaust world full of marauders and cannibals. The father’s animalistic behavior throughout the novel reflect the intentions of most of the society around them, while the son represents sympathy in a world that has no more to offer. In The Road, whenever the father and son encounter others on their journey the boy shows more sympathy…

two position. The gold band of his wedding ring barely fits on his swollen finger, but he refuses to take it off despite the tight fit and the black nick in the precious metal. His khaki pants remain wrinkle free, despite Clarence having been on the road for the past three weeks. His grey button down shirt is tucked into the pants, and his navy sweater vest is lint free. His shoes are polished and shiny under the dash. His face is clean shaven, and his thinning blonde hair is neatly combed,…

waste of resources such as gas, making people late to various things, and can even causes stress which is a health related problem. On average, people waste a month of their life on the road in traffic. Traffic is caused by multiple things such as accidents on the road, the days and times that students go back to school, mostly UH, and the time that most people, students and workers, start work. If we don’t do something about the traffic now, these problems and many more will continue to…