A Different Road Short Story

and it is a nice way to tie the book together. Another aspect that I enjoyed was how Ray fought

      From the very first paragraph of the narrative, I noticed that there were several details that the narrator mentioned that required further, deeper thought. For me, this is what made the story appealing.

I found this story very exciting but most of all I like the part when

(E) The motif of the entire novel revolves around fire. Fire is used as a literal object as well as a

In each novel of his personal literary journey, Cormac McCarthy examines death and God in different ways. Edwin T. Arnold, who wrote his essay “Blood and Grace: The Fiction of Cormac McCarthy” before The Road, examines how “McCarthy’s protagonists are most often those who, in their travels, are bereft of the voice of God and yet yearn to hear him speak” (14). In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the father explicitly describes his son as god; however, by juxtaposing the father and the son and examining their divine resemblances, it is not the boy but the man who embodies God, supporting Ely’s claim that this post-apocalyptic world is too harsh for God to exist.

This story was very well put together in my mind, it draws suspense form the readers and

Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them?

In the middle of her struggle, Moody offers insights and correctives to some common interpretations of down south black involvement. They believed that since the black churches were focal points of the community’s beliefs and social groups that they were also in the front position during the first occurrence of racial discrimination. Although, for Moody’s experience, this was not true, well at least in Centreville and the rest of Wilkinson

The Glass Castle, is about the life of Jeanette and her siblings growing up with their unique type of parents, Mary Rose and Rex Walls. Rex and Mary Rose were very smart people who lived an unconventional life. After all the siblings were born they moved from shanty town to shanty town. Rex worked odd jobs with no real steady income coming into the family for basic needs like food. They raised the children in and out of school institutions, teaching them to get by on unique means.

It is remarkable how differentiated works of literature can be so similar and yet so different, just by the way the authors choose to use select certain literary devices. Two different novels, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, display these characteristics because of the ways the authors institute such mechanisms. Brave New World describes a futuristic era where humans are genetically manufactured for a certain job predestined to them before they are artificially created, and where common human emotions, desires, wants, and needs have all been modified to support a deemed utopian society where everyone lives and works together in harmony. The Road describes a post-apocalyptic

The author did an excellent job of making the story somewhat easy to understand and fun to read. By picking a child to tell the story, it was easier to read between the lines and find the real meaning of what was being said.

I liked the book because i thought their was a lot of detail added into the story also i think that it was kind of neet that their was good characters

The Road is a story where is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where the date and location is unnamed. The author of the novel Cormac McCarthy doesn 't describe why or how the disaster has demolish the earth. But after reading the novel, I can sense that the author wanted to present a case of mystery and fear to the unknown to the reader. By the author 's exclusion I think that the story gains a better understanding of what the author wanted to express to the reader. An expression of a man and his son surviving in a post-apocalyptic setting.

to die, we soon are revealed our surroundings. A wet, ash filled place that we can assume is Midwest America for the father stating repeatedly that the states are gone and they are headed south. As the story continues the dou reaches the “road” that they were looking for and begins south when other survivors appear and our duo must hide for shelter for the night. As the father sleeps there are flashbacks, back to his wife, the two sitting in the kitchen before there are massive explosions and bright lights as what we can only a nuclear war begins, leading them into a nuclear winter. Then the father awakes and they begin along their journey south for many days until again they sleep and we are given another flashback to the man is sitting in

The four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Frost, is well known for his picturesque portrayal of rural lifestyle, focusing mainly on the New England region of the United States. “The Road Not Taken”, published in 1916 is one of his earliest written and most highly praised works. It is considered a masterpiece of American Literature and its content is frequently studied by high school and college students to this day. The poem is a closed frame narrative type consisting of four stanzas with a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. While being the most popular of the numerous poems written by Robert Frost, it has also been one of the most misinterpreted and openly interpreted poems of his