Alberto Urrea's 'The Devil's Highway': A Review

This is a very important part of the book because it shows the reader that the

The Road is about a father and a young boy who take on the south after a huge catastrophe hits the world. The father and boy in the story are never named, which makes it very hard to read. They have many hardships like finding food, supplies, and shelter. They come along many different things like abandoned houses, people, and terrifying landscapes. When the father and young boy come upon the house and different people, the reader is excited because you never knew what was going to happen to the main characters, and when something good happened, their success was your success. Even though they battle through these hardships they find a way through it. The Road has a deep explanation of the road, the father’s dream, and the different people the man and the boy meet along the way. The author, Cormac McCarthy, uses imagery to make the descriptions vivid and clear which adds to the intensity of the novel.

The road written by Cormac Mccarthy; one of the most praised contemporary novels. The road tells the story of a man and a boy traveling in a post apocalyptic world. “Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world”(Mccarthy1). The world is now filled with ash and inhabited by cannibals and bandits. The boy and man’s goal is to get to the south as they think it’ll be warmer there. The novel’s grammer is abstract as they’re barely any periods written as they talk. This style is used to make the reader pay attention as one can easily lose who’s talking. One of the biggest themes in the novel is the fire in all to live and stay alive; Survival. Cormac Mccarthy’s biggest critique on this novel was that the ending was too hopeful and positive, opposed to Mccarthy and the entire style of the book. The book is entirely filled with grave feelings pondering suicide and a feeling of nothing ever getting better. In the end the man dies but the boy is picked up by another man and women who seem nice. People 's opinion of the Road differ within the last pages. Though the ending might seem hopeful, it has two different interpretations, and Cormac has shown that he’s not a happy ending kind of guy.

The most significant part of the entire text is that most of the readers will never feel the pain of author. The ability not to be able to relate and understand someone’s struggle is very impactful.

2. Why might some readers find this chapter easier and more interesting to read than many of the other chapters in the story?

was a new route and this was only the second time that Mendez had taken it.

important segments and chapters of the book, in an attempt to convey the emotions and points of

The humanizing aspect of the book is what I enjoyed most about the book, because while I love learning about science, colorless scientific histories are rather difficult to read.

The friendships and relationships formed and broken by characters and how they impacted on others at the time was a big part of the read. More

There was one idea in particular that really struck me in this book. Though it is merely a story in part II and not a main

This side story makes the book more realistic to its audience, all the while showing real life

“Lives are lived the way people want it to be” the novel tells us that people have the

There are many ways teachers can advice their understanding of a discipline including seminars, speeches, articles, etc. However, I have found that reading non-fiction material or books on the subject you are trying to enhance your understanding is very beneficial. After reading, The Zoo Keeper’s Wife, there are many new ideas that have emerged from the reading that will not only enhance my understanding, but also be helpful to my future students. Key concepts such as time, culture and tradition, change, and nationalism are four concepts that seem to be very important in this book. Not only are they important key concepts in this book, but as well as the history standards for elementary students.

Life is a highway by Rascal Flats connects to Santiago’s trip traveling with the caravan on page 67. During this part, Santiago and a group of people travel with a desert caravan. After talking to the englishman he tells Santiago that Urim and Thummim are plain rocks with no importance. Santiago explains that the king of Salem gave them to him, but that the Englishman wouldn’t understand. The Englishman shocks Santiago as he does understand the story of Urim and Thummim because he read it in the Bible. The Englishman says that he is seeking an alchemist, and Santiago replies that he is on his way to look for treasure by the Egyptian Pyramids. The caravan is warned of nearby thieves and tribal wars. The caravan travels quickly through the

Readers are given an invaluable source of background information and context in the first portion of the novel, which allows for readers to have a starting point to work off of in regards to understanding what obstacles destiny will throw at the characters during the rest of their mission. For instance, Marlow is described in depth and the novel illustrates his development from one perspective to another as he grapples with the vast spectrum and realities of humankind. While the journey unfolds, imagery also begins to become a key role in moving the storyline along and providing crucial