The Road

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, I think shows assimilation throughout the novel. You can see the man and his son slowly adapt and adjust into the world they are now living in. The world has just gone through an apocalypse and there are not many resources left, so they have learned how to scavenge for any resources there may be. In this novel they wake up not knowing if they will find any food or not. They have learned to ration themselves so that their food will last longer. The man and the…

Society, many characters are exposed to the idea and benefits of living according to their own desires, rather than other peoples. After this exposure, character’s are forced to choose which path to ultimately embark on. Robert Frost’s renowned poem, The Road Not Taken, explores similar situations and themes as well. The poem is so spectacular because of the fact that the message relates to almost anyone, and therefore the speaker is very versatile. While many characters definitely could have…

Hope is a feeling of expectation or desire for a certain thing to happen. In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the Man and Boy are forced to rely on hope and persistency in order to survive in the apocalyptic world they’re living in. Throughout the novel, there are many symbols to represent hope; such as the bunker, the ocean, and the fire. Having hope can give one the ability to persevere through hardship. First, the bunker gives them hope to overcome starvation. Hunger was one major issue…

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,…

ember flickers and smoulders in the breeze, blackening the wood, illuminating the ravaged landscape in a post-apocalyptic world of decay. Fire sometimes is seen as a destructive weapon devouring everything in its path. However, in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, fire not only maintains the father and his son’s lives under harsh natural condition but also acts as a beacon of hope and goodness on the father and his son’s journey toward the south. McCarthy repeats the idea of “carrying the fire” many…

How does never differ to be from what never was? In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, A man and his son struggle to survive in a post apocalyptic world that continually tests their morality. However, the contrasting perspectives between these characters illustrates how life experiences can affect a person’s level of compassion. The man’s divided life experiences, pre and post apocalypse, allows him to more fully grasp the degradation of society, which makes him much less compassionate towards…

Religion Without 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…

Is there ever a moment where the odds are stacked against someone so much, that they have the right to give up? Cormac McCarthy would say no. In his novel The Road, McCarthy tells the story of a man and his son slogging across the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the United States. In this ashen wasteland, morality is almost completely absent, with the man and the boy being some of the only characters the reader sees who have even an ounce of goodness within them. The others are murderers and…

In the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy one question seems to appear in just about everyone’s life. One of life and death. Some say yes, some say no, and some do not know. But, this question if it is worth living constantly pops up throughout the book. McCarthy first presents this question through the mother of the boy in a flashback. This is where she decides to kill herself after giving birth. This triggers the man to thus be questioning life in this new post-apocalyptic world. The man…

In the novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy shows that “the good guys. Keep trying. They don’t give up.” (McCarthy 137) As one of the good guys, the man has to teach the son to carry the fire so he can replenish the earth by turning the world from evil. If the man does not do this the son will not have anything to live for and will want to die with the man. The man and son have only a few pieces of hope keeping them going; without the son the man would have given up but in the hardest times they…