The Road

“The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost is a poem that is a metaphor for life. A single choice can shift the course of a life. Regret is accompanied by undiscovered alternatives, forcing a pause in decision making. Within the poem there is a usage of figurative language, meaning the author chose to incorporate similes, metaphors, or personification in the chirography or writing. There was no similes in the poem, however there was one metaphor. The only metaphor was “two roads diverged,” which was…

Even though she considers The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost as somewhat cliché, she finds it an empowering poem to live her life by. Growing up, she was very independent and wanted to set herself apart from her other siblings. In school when she first read The Road Not Taken, she immediately recognized her connection with it. Frost contemplates which road to take when both of them seem like reasonable options, but ultimately chooses to take the path of the “road less traveled by.” She…

The novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy follows a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic world. They are forced to endure many tough situations, which make them test themselves and continually push their limits. Over time, the boy starts to become detached from the horrors he witnesses, which shows that morals are shed when one sees too many cruel acts. In the beginning of the book, the boy is desperately trying to hold onto his morals, no matter what he sees. Along the road Papa and the boy…

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, takes place in a post apocalyptic world that is dark and covered by ash. The book follows a man and his son as they try to survive with little supply and each other. Throughout the book, the man and the boy are faced with many challenges. A frequent challenge being the people they encounter, which are often the bad guys. The bad guys are people that have lost all ties with the concept of society and are the most gruesome representation of survivors. The Road puts…

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The Road, a post-apocalyptic, bleak and overwhelmingly daunting set novel, which conceals a deeper rooted message of overwhelming love and the connection as well as the true meaning of father and son even through the darkest of times. This iconic novel was written by the world renown Cormac McCarthy, who typically writes out of the ordinary, dark, and menacing books and is also known for several other of his works including Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men. McCarthy published this novel…

The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost uses a great deal of figurative language within it. Figurative language is anything from a simile to a metaphor and is greatly used within poems. One form of figurative speech is metaphors. The metaphor used in the poem is the divergent road, and the idea that the speaker must choose one of the two paths. The metaphor of the fork in the road is a fascinating one because it highlights the power and the misery of choice. The speaker is torn between…

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a story of a father and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Together, they walk through a wasteland searching for necessities essential for survival, while trying to avoid roaming bands of cannibals. Along the way their morals are revealed in the choices they make to survive. McCarthy develops the theme of morality by showing the conflict between the boy’s and father’s moral impulses, especially when moral choices affect their own and others’…

rules and morals we once had were destroyed along with the planet Earth. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, illustrates what its’ like for a young boy and his father surviving in a post-apocalyptic world without the presence of a woman. Throughout the novel with the use of allusions and vast imagery, women can be presented as ‘weak’ whereas it is the father and son who continue along this post-apocalyptic road. The way McCarthy presented women is very misogynistic. Throughout the journey, the father is…

Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, is a bleak parable chronicling the journey of a father and son across a desolate, post-apocalyptic America. McCarthy’s work typically focuses on themes such as human nature, theodicy and the evil within society, with an overriding nihilistic worldview. The Road follows through on this, with McCarthy prophesying our destruction as a consequence of these societal flaws, and reminding modern readers of how much we have to lose if we remain on this path of…