Cormac Mccarthy The Road Analysis

A mother and a child. A love that transcends no bounds. To give up a child leaves a hole that nothing can fill. An empty abyss. In the heat of the moment, the mother is convinced that she is doing right by the child. Giving that child a life that they themselves will not be able to give. It hurts to leave, but they know deep down, that the sacrificing of their happiness for the child’s well-being is what is best. In the photograph Mother and child by Jerome Liebling, the mother stands, child in arms, before the steps. Before the steps of giving up the one piece of joy she has in her life. Holding a blank expression on her face, trying not to show any emotion as it would only make what she is about to do harder. She is tired, worn down by the weight of the world. Contemplating what she is about to do, although she knows it will not help.

When he fell in love I believe that the father was conflicted with chasing his dreams or staying and living the dream his beloved had envisioned. At the time he might have felt like he was making the decision that he wanted but as the years went by he regretted his choice but chose to continue living his life never fully being who he really wanted to be.

A son’s loss of a father at an early age, and the search for him is at the root of his unsettling of himself. When a young boy loses a father at an early age he does not have the chance to get to know him, he begins to search for an identity for his father through holding on to a possible picture of how his father looked.

When Kevin sees his father almost dying, he begins to think of the fatherless children in the world. He extends grace towards fathers in general by thinking how important a role they play in a child’s life, regardless of the mistakes that they might make. After thinking about fathers in general, he then thinks about his own father and as Bailey puts it, “ The caring-the carefulness-which was the belief in holding on to something worth preserving and passing on. Love. Kevin felt the tide of emotion that had been at its lowest ebb flowing back into him again. He looked to his Dad”. (259-260). Instead of remaining angry at his Dad for previous conflicts or for accidentally shooting his brother, Kevin extends grace to his Dad when he chooses instead to think and remember about all the love and caring his father has ever shown him. When he begins to feel that love for his father, his emotions pick up and that gives him the grace to keep on going without emotionally breaking down.

51 year old Dr. Nickolas Wolterstorff received a phone call at 3:30 pm that his son Eric has died while climbing a mountain. This incident made him to write this book “Lament for a son” so that others could hear his story. Dr.Wolterstorffs had so many unanswered in his mind. He was asking God why he allowed his son to die at a very young age. He as lamenting that it was not proper for a son to die before the father.

This section shows that the boy believes he has a responsiblitiy to help his father stay alive and to make sure that he is taking care of himself. The boy shows this by making him a cup of hot chocolate. Although the world has changed vastly, the bond between father and son is still holds fast. The father attempts to keep the fire of life and the will to live alive in the boy by telling him stories that demostrated great courage and sought to promote justice.

Her soft glossed lips murmuring beside him underneath the monumental forest surrounding the oak balcony and her showers of kisses, joy, and love were proof of his point. But he always wasn’t sure about his father. Sure, he knew that he is his father’s biological son, but did his father actually consider him as his “Son”? Countless differences set them apart and they only decreased their nonexistent “Father and Son Relationship”. His father wanted him to achieve what he hadn’t -- the treasure. The leaf had already chose him unbeknownst to his father. Bringing his hand to his pounding chest, Isaac let out a small breath of air. He wasn’t ready for this. After all, he was just a normal derpy everyday teenage boy -- nothing much really. Besides, not even his older brother, Jacob, his father’s pride and joy, could have done

The protagonist knows next to nothing of love, only the thinking that everything can be deemed as a social experiment. With his father always putting so much trust in his son but not giving him the affection needed to complete the goals that he wanted, it make his goals very hard for him to achieve without the stimulation. Later on, Me states, “I wasn’t fed; I was presented with lukewarm appetitive stimuli. I wasn’t punished, but broken of my unconditional reflexes. I wasn’t loved, but brought up in an atmosphere of calculated intimacy and intense levels of commitment (Beatty 27).”

father did not die a ‘complete’ death and that haunts him. This pain is shown in a unique way

Love As Remedy. The unnamed father in the road takes care of his son with a lot of love. The young boy and his father love and care for each other all the time to cover for the anxiety. The author remarks that the boy hangs on to him all the time in fear of the unknown. The small boy seeks refuge and love from his father. When the father attempts to leave the boy to go and look for firewood, the boy cries and claim that he is afraid to be left alone. This depicts the fear he feels, especially if he is left alone. The young boy keeps clutching on his fathers coat for safety (McCarthy, 2006, p.34). The father carries the boy across the

Love As Remedy. The unnamed father in the road takes care of his son with a lot of love. The young boy and his father love and care for each other all the time to cover for the anxiety. The author remarks that the boy hangs on to him all the time in fear of the unknown. The small boy seeks refuge and love from his father. When the father attempts to leave the boy to go and look for firewood, the boy cries and claim that he is afraid to be left alone. This depicts the fear he feels, especially if he is left alone. The young boy keeps clutching on his fathers coat for safety (McCarthy, 2006, p.34). The father carries the boy across the field, stopping to catch a breath

... the environment the son was brought up in, and the effect it had on him. Most children the same age of the sun, never even have death running through their minds, yet the son talks about if unfazed. The setting of the story is post-apocalypse and death are something the son sees every day, in an unforgiving world. The son has some type of knowledge about mortality and knows they do not have time on their side. The father replying with a simple “Sometimes. Not Now”, gives the son some type of reassurance to not worry about such things, and to keep looking on forward.

Adventures can be dangerous and end in tragedy however, being born can end in death as well. In the poem, “Death of a Young Son by Drowning,” by Margaret Atwood; the narrator takes us on an adventure from the start to the end. The narrator that Atwood creates gives us a clear picture on how hard it is to navigate life and the adventure that comes with it. We learn in this tragic poem that there is nothing you can do to prevent the

In the first paragraphs of the story it becomes clear to the reader that the father is going through a difficult time. “It made him happy, and he hadn’t been happy in a while.” [P.1 L.5] Which could hint towards how he has been going through a dark phase of his life. The cause of this could be a recent divorce from his wife, the introduced son’s mother. It is also hinted that the split up might have been his doing, seeing as the moment his eyes lands on his ex-wife a thought hits him. “Maybe— maybe he could make this right.” [P.1 L.20]

His death caused my family’s descent into poverty. Empty dinner tables and a surplus of echoing gunshots at night grew to become our norm. A sense of utter despair cascaded over me consuming what little hope I had for the world. I had no future, no drive, no reason to push on. The pity I held for myself was endless. I blamed the world for my situation. It was through this scope that I approached life for what seemed an eternity. Things were not getting better. My family remained poor and I was a failure.