The Wrong Road

felt proud of myself when I climbed to the top of the mountain. Climbing a mountain is always a challenging outdoor activities. It reminds me that my experience that the first time I climbed a 900 feet height mountain. Some of the roads were stairs and some were plat mud roads. The mountain was covered by grass, flower, and short trees, so there was no place to hide the heat of the sun. There was afternoon when we climbed to 400 feet. I was slowing down. The heat burned my skin, and I felt…

Immigrants face many problems when they are in a place so different to what used to be their home, where they grew up. Many of them do not have English and that is a challenge that most face. English being your second language could cause many troubles from finding a job to purchasing your weekly shop. Many have to take low paid jobs due to the language barrier. A way in which this problem could be overcome is by immigrants taking ESL (English as a Second Language) classes. The problem with that…

1) Can you describe how you typically get around on campus (by foot/bike/car) from the moment you arrive on campus until the moment you leave campus? What do you do when you get to campus? How do you interact with other users of the road (e.g., pedestrians, cyclists, drivers – for example, whether and how you stop for them)? Interviewee #1: I get around campus by foot. I live near campus, so I typically take the bus every so often to and from campus, but if not I just walk. I usually get to…

The Road is a post-apocalyptic tale which follows the journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months. The pair trek across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization, leaving a barren wasteland full of ash and debris. Although there are a few survivors, without law and order, they must become the indefatigable defenders of their own lives. The will to survive and level of determination depicted by the characters provides…

The three texts Cosi, Freedom Writers and The Road not Taken, all symbolise Inner Journey in their own individual ways but all collectively have the same meaning and objective; to express their characters own personal experience in a way to make the reader understand the hardship and struggles that go through a persons life once you dig deeper into who they really are. Inner Journey is a pilgrimage of the self; it's goal is the realisation that life is both tragic and comic and therefore…

made it difficult and tiring to bike. Finally we saw the signs for Utrecht, the next city we were staying in. Unfortunately, just outside of the city, our GPS decided to stop showing us where we were on the map. We continued biking, and after a few wrong turns, found someone who directed us to our house. We had to ask a few more people along the way, but finally made it to the house. The house was very tidy and large; it had two televisions and two sets of very steep stairs. In the basement,…

A little bit after we had continued to drive, it seemed like we were wrong. The weather was not getting better, in fact it seemed to be progressively getting worse. As we were driving there was a pothole that we hit and I swear I thought that the ground was going to swallow us up. There was so much water that came up and…

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…

Traveling through the Dark is a poem which makes the narrator consider the road of life and mortality. The poem is written in a very straightforward way. It shows that sometimes you have to make decisions by yourself, based on your moral qualities and what you believe. The author writes the poem so that the reader can relate to the narrator in the story. He allows the reader to put themselves in the narrator's shoes and ask themselves what they would do in a situation in which they could choose…

Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road contains an excellent example of survival instincts in a destructive world and of how a person’s love can motivate someone to continue on the right path. Since the novel is dedicated to McCarthy’s son John Francis, some readers like Oprah Winfrey have stated that the novel is similar to a love story. The narrative describes a post-apocalyptic world where two main characters, the man and the boy, travel along the abandoned state roads to reach the South for better…