Cormac Mccarthy: A Tragic Hero

In 1850 he and his family moved to Wisconsin where he lived for 5 years until his mother died. He moved with his father back to Freeport. While he was a young man he got $1,000 of inheritance money from his Grandfather and went to Michigan in an attempt to join the University of Michigan.

Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20th 1978. Sinclair grew up in a broken household; his father was an alcohol salesman and killed himself drinking. While his mother would not even think about drinking alcohol. So these personalities naturally clashed. So Sinclair found some solace in books, Sinclair was a natural writer and he began publishing at the young age of fifteen years old. Sinclair started off going to school at a small college by the name of New York City College. This was just temporary as Sinclair would need time and money to move higher up to a form of better education. So as a result Sinclair took the initiative and he started writing columns on ethnic jokes and hack fiction for small magazines in

when he was a teen and then later on became a professor at Texas A&M University.He written

"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse, only Suttree didn't say so" (372).

In the Cormac McCarthy novel “No Country For Old Men”, Llewellyn Moss makes a gruesome discovery while on a hunting trip in Texas. Moss finds dead bodies, bullet ridden trucks, guns, drugs and money in the desert. He decides to steal the bag of money that contains millions of dollars which changes the course of his life and many others. A local sheriff, Ed Tom Bell, and crazy hit-man killer, Anton Chigurh, are both on the hunt for Moss. McCarthy’s novel depicts how society has been adversely affected and desensitized by the exposure to violence and accepts that evil acts are a part of life.

John Ernst Steinbeck was born and raised in Salinas, California. As a child he always aspired to become a great writer. Between the years of 1920 and 1925 Steinbeck attended Stanford University. While at Stanford University, Steinbeck took classes in writing techniques. Although John Ernst Steinbeck excelled in writing he lacked the will to achieve in other areas of education. Unfortunately, Steinbeck never graduated from Stanford.

Was born March 22, 1947 in Newburgh, New York. Now he lives in Palm Beach, Florida. His writing has put on the best-selling lists. In 2005 he began to write young-adult fiction books. One of his books won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote books like "Along Came a Spider," "Cradle and All," "Hide and Seek," "Kiss the Girls," and "The Lake

What would you do in an apocalypse? Would you try to uphold morality or abandon it? The Road, by Cormac Mccarthy, tackles these sorts of questions. It is a book defined by death and suffering. Thomas Foster’s book has three specific chapters that I have chosen; Chapter 11, chapter 12, and chapter 19. These specific chapters can better help explain the many symbols and dark themes of The Road.

I read As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, which was published in 1930 and written in 1929. He was born in the United States, in Mississippi, and many of his stories take place there.

I found it fascinating to view a post apocalyptic environment though the eyes of a child.

Stephen king (known for a lot of people as the horror master), was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. Son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King who got divorced when he was very young, therefore he and his brother started dividing their time between Connecticut and Indiana during their teenage years, but finally king decided to move with her brother and mother in Maine definitely, There he graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966. After that king went to the University of Maine at Orono, staying close from home, while in college king he wrote for the school's newspaper and served in its student government. And also published his first short story, which appeared in Startling Mystery Stories, and finally after king graduated with a English degree in 1970, he tried looking for a job as teacher but he was rejected in several times, in the beginning, but eventually king went forced to took a job a laundry se he could make a living, but he continued writing stories in his free time, until late 1971 when got offered a job, as an English educator at Hampden Academy. It was that year that he also married fellow writer Tabitha Spruce. Who had met in the stacks of the of the Folger library at the university of Maine where they both worked as students, Stephen made his first professional short story sale

Literature has always attempted to explore the human psyche. Romantic works examine the emotion behind attraction and betrayal, love and desire. Fantasy novels take the reader to an imaginary world, filled with wonders. Gothic literature intertwines romance and horror, and often features the supernatural. Southern Gothic writing explores the gothic within the more realistic bounds of southern culture while revealing the grotesque––the base and broken nature of the human soul and how society is easily susceptible to ruin, both spiritually and physically. As today’s most important Southern Gothic writer, Cormac McCarthy crafts works and themes which delve into the nature of humanity, explore the depravity, futility, and, ultimately, reveal

John Steinbeck was born on February 27th, 1902, in Salinas, California. His parents worked as store managers and schoolhouse teachers. At the age of fourteen, Steinbeck had already developed a love for writing. He would often isolate himself in his room and create poems and stories. In 1919 John enrolled at Stanford University. Clearly college wasn’t meant for Steinbeck because he ended up dropping out in 1925. After college Steinbeck jumped from place to place attempting to find a job he could pursue. It wasn’t until he settled near Lake Tahoe that he wrote his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). With support from his wife, Carol Henning, Steinbeck wrote twenty-seven books and won several awards for his spectacular novels. In 1962 Steinbeck was

On the 407th floor of In-Gen Intergalactic a man paced around his room rapidly.He had a polished appearance and was dressed in crisp black robes. He had a firm complexion. There was something special about him. He walked in the centre of a vast white room and although he was small he was no less significant than the mountain of a man that sat across from him. It wasn't their robes that made them stand out, it was the look in their eyes. They were not men who were accustomed to difficulty. They were both strong-minded men who were in control. Today though, something had unsettled them. The larger man stood up quietly and walked silently towards a window from which he surveyed the empire he'd accumulated.

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, wherein he roamed fields and riverbanks by day and night. He wrote his first novel written at the age of eleven. He also kept extensive diaries and newspapers. His parents, Leow and Gabrielle immigrated separately from rural Quebec to New Hampshire. His family French-Canadian dialect of Joual is used in their home. French was the first language to Kerouac.