Cormac Mccarthy's The Road

In the 21st century people seem to have become more fixated on how the world is going to end than actually living in it. This is evident in the numerous post-apocalyptic dystopian bestsellers there have been recently. One of the most prominent of those is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Separating it from the flood of numerous other books in its genre McCarthy and The Road challenges existing motifs of post-apocalyptic literature. The Road uses these themes to focus on the central idea of good vs evil.

Currently, it seems that popular literature is filled with post-apocalyptic novels. These books sometimes venture into the fantasy and sci-fi genres, but always they portray the author’s idea of what humanity could look like after the world as we know it has ended. More importantly, they serve as mirrors for the vices currently plaguing society, demonstrating how these faults metastasize into major forces of evil when placed in the context of desperate circumstances. The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s harrowing description of a father-son pair slogging through the desolation of an unknown apocalypse, is no exception. McCarthy sets himself apart by emphasizing the nature of good and evil, utilizing flawless prose, and relentlessly confronting the reader with the inescapability of mortality. Truly, The Road is a brutally honest commentary on humanity’s capacity for cruelty and the never-ending struggle towards goodness.

In the novel, “ The Road”, by Cormac McCarthy, two characters, a man and his son, traverse the barren, post-apocalyptic United States. Their goal is to cross the southern border of the country alive but they encounter many obstacles along the way. First, they are almost shot dead by bandits from which they scantily escape by hiding in a forest. Next, they are nearly captured and eaten while scavenging in a seemingly deserted house. Worst of all, on multiple occasions they nearly starved to death because they struggled to find food. After months of traveling, the characters nearly escape the country save one who simply could not complete the journey . The boy’s father had a sickness that caused his death on the last leg of the journey. Consequently, the boy meets a stranger with whom he will escape the country with.

Throughout the world, animals have protected and cared their young from the dangers they must face or encounter such as how humans must protect their children in order to thrive. This is how life is for the protagonist and his son in the book, The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy that introduces us to a man and his son trying to reach the south of the U.S. in order to find salvation. During their journey, they must survive in the wasteland against cannibals and other survivors along the way. Thus, illustrates how they must fight in order to survive throughout the wasteland they wander. Although the Father and Son live in a world of great depravity and hardship, the Father has imparted “The Fire” because his Son is the only person in this wasteland willing to help others rather than scavenge them.

When put into a scenario of what you would do post-apocalypse, the society may begin to question what is actually important. Everything is suddenly amplified and survival automatically becoming a key component to most. So what else can actually matters? Relationships are lost, but some may grow stronger. Ethics are tested, and beliefs suddenly change. In the novel, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, begins with America - or assuming the whole world- had gone through a unpredictable apocalypse. Combining what is left of the society and the world falling dangerously apart, it has caused them to go through many dangers to survive. Through all the disastrous events, the end of God and ethics, the father continues to show and represent his moral values through his son and refuses to forget any belief that he still has. For the movie, 28 days later, the protagonist of the story, Jim, wakes up from a coma to an abandoned hospital completely delusional to what has happened in London. When seeking out for help or any type of life that could be out there, he find himself in a deathly situation; A church full of zombies out for nothing but blood, until two other people save him and catch him up of London 's downfall of civilization. The tale is about the survival and heroics and how mankind tries to survive threw savage nature.

Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road” reveals a constructed world as utterly hopeless to live within. The author presents dark and grotesque themes and unimaginable realities that position humans and their condition to its limits. Immersed in a burnt and dead world, following a nuclear explosion, the world hosts cannibalistic blood cults and road rats that would kill, rape and eat innocent children. The novelist emphasises that the very idea of living in such circumstances seems utterly hopeless. “The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth, darkness implacable” is revealed as a place of agonies in which one can either turn to suicide or become the ‘bad guy’.

“Hope… Sometimes that’s all you have when you have nothing else. If you have it. You have everything .” In The Road by Cormac McCarthy a recurring theme in the story is gaining or losing hope. Throughout this story there are numerous instances and events that occur in which all seems lost at a dead end, but in those moment hope carries through and thrives. In this dystopian post apocalyptic world the man and boy are fighting to stay alive while keeping their humanity as well as searching for what humanity is left in this kill or be killed cannibalistic planet. As their time journeying down the road increases so do the dangers and obstacles they face to survive. The more they overcome the more hope thrives in them showing that in even in the most catastrophic events having hope helps them get closer to finding the light at the end of the tunnel and not being consumed by the darkness.

The world is a very unique place with unique rules. The world doesn’t think a lot about what it would look like without laws. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a novel about a post-apocalyptic world, and what is takes to survive. There is a man and his son within the story, trying to survive after a nuclear attack. There aren’t any laws or standards left in the world, after the bomb destroys everything.

For starters, The Road displays that people can overcome tough situations by having faith and never giving up. A father and son in the novel are forced to survive and adapt to a new way of living that includes, searching for food and shelter to survive, and always being on the lookout for evil people. Never giving up, and having faith in these tough situations is how the pair survive and live the best life possible. The man in the novel always believed in never giving up, and to keep moving forward. After days without food

The Man, The Boy, and the remains of a dead world are the only constants the reader will know as they make their journey down “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. The novel tells a story of the nameless protagonists as they traverse through a post-apocalyptic land in an attempt to reach the warm coast before winter. McCarthy’s story also covers many dark and heavy topics - primarily death. He has said himself that death especially is a major issue in the world, and that writers who do not address it are not serious. As a man of his word, McCarthy has written “The Road” with imagery and metaphor alluding to how death stays as a heavy presence even after it has done its work. The book’s dystopia is a result of all of the worst faults of humanity,

The boy 's father tells him "My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you. Do you understand?" (McCarthy The Road) this sends such a powerful message about instinct, hope, and paternal love. These words so passionately from the lips of the father perfectly describes Cormac McCarthy 's story of The Road and the power a father 's love surpasses his morals and beliefs. In this story it will tell a tale of love throughout a terrifying journey of a father and his boy to find something to cling on to. They face horrible tragedy and despair along their journey to the south through a dreary wasteland they must learn to call home, but hold tight to their beliefs to stay as civil as possible through such horrific times. This essay will discuss the relationship between the father and son and what they struggled through to wind up stronger together than ever before, despite the world they are traveling in. Also describing the parental love and the power it holds over a person in any situation and how it may make the father question his morals in order to protect the son. McCarthy 's style shows so much emotion and he displays his prose writings with such detail that they need little else to move you. He has a way in his novels that can be dripping with

The Road is a post-apocalyptic story about how a man who knows how the world was before everything took a turn goes on a journey with a boy who only knows the world as it is now. The world used to be so normal with tree’s and wildlife everywhere but now it’s so different everything is destroyed, the world is covered in ash, there is no sign of life… anywhere. As the man and the boy take this journey the man day in and day out thinks about the previous world but doesn’t want to tell the boy because he doesn’t want the boy really knowing how bad his life and his world is. The story entails that you can’t lose what you have looking for something that’s gone. The road goes on.

The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel, “The Road,” written by Cormac McCarthy, tells the heart-breaking story of a father and son who are forced to wander an endless road throughout apocalyptic North America. The story is filled with unforgiving weather that “cracks rocks” and human cannibals that rape and destroy anything, and anyone, they come across. The people throughout the story show that not is this a novel of despair but also one of unrelenting pain and hardship. The characters do not inspire hope but only remind us of our own desperation – this includes that actions of the man who wants only to protect his son and the general feeling of loss that seem to cover every page.

In Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, the setting is America in a post-apocalyptic state. The world as the characters knew it was gone. Many

One of the many themes in “The Road” is good verses evil. In the post- apocalyptic world that the boy and the man live in, there are dangerous men and women that murder the remaining survivors in order to live. This large group of cannibals are greatly feared by the father and the boy, as they are referred as the “bad guys”. Along the duos journey to get to the south side of America, they encountered the “bad guys” multiple times. Such as when one man from the truck attacked the boy and threatened to kill him.