He Went On The Blue Highway Short Story

The Road, a post apocalyptic novel,written by Cormac McCarthy, tells the story of a father and son traveling along the cold, barren and ash ridden interstate highways of America. Pushing all their worldly possessions in a shopping cart, they struggle to survive. Faced with despair, suicide and cannibalism, the father and son show a deep loving and caring that keeps them going through unimaginable horrors. Through the setting of a post apocalyptic society, McCarthy demonstrates the psychological effects of isolation and the need to survive and how these effects affect the relationships of the last few people on Earth.

Visual plays a great factor in the passage, Marquarts want to describe how the Midwest gets looked down. Marquart uses visuals “ .. through the state of North Dakota, you’ll encounter a road so lonely, treeless and devoid of rising and curves in places that it will feel like a long-held pedal steel guitar note”. The visuals are used to print a picture in the reader's mind showing the reader that long rides are boring and driving through the Midwest is boring because there is nothing to see. She also used a simile to describe how it just one big long road of nothing. The long guitar note is used to show the reader that a single note is dull when a single note is playing the audience waits in suspense to find out what is happening next later to find out nothing going to happen. By focusing on what the visual mean Marquart is able to how the reader an understanding of what the Midwest means to her as well a in showing the characteristics of the Midwest.

Highway’s syntax which incorporates parallelism and interjections helps develop the urgency in the beginning stages of the story. Highway uses one-word interjections such as “mush” to emphasize the desperation in Okimasis voice and show his determination to win the race in hopes of gaining the “holy chalice”. Along with interjections Highway also uses parallelism to dramatize the situation and add suspense for the reader. In the beginning lines of the passage, Highway writes, “so crisp, so dry”; this parallelism aids the establishment of the setting which is of key importance to the storyline. In the 3rd paragraph Highway states, “he was so tired, his dogs beyond tired, so tired.” At this point in the story, the reader might assume that Okimasis will give up. The emphasis Highway puts on his exhaustion allows the audience to feel sympathy for Okimasis and mentally root for him toward the finish line. As

All he talked about was the two roads and that was where the story was taking place. Usually writers have their setting be a major city, state, country or even in the future and past. Not many writers would make their setting two roads that diverged in a yellow wood, but Robert Frost did a good job describing and making you imagine the two roads while you were reading the story. Robert Frost wrote a little four paragraph poem, but he didn’t use much figurative language.

In the first paragraph, Highway begins by depicting the image of what Okimasis was experiencing during the race. “Through the rising vapour of a northern Manitoba February, so crisp, so dry, the snow creaked underfoot, the caribou hunter Abraham Okimasis drove his sled and team of eight grey huskies through the orange-rose-tinted dusk.” By giving the readers grimy details like this, Highway pulls the readers and force them to picture the scene and experience the struggles the Okimasis is experiencing. Later on in the passage, Highway continues to depict the okimasis experience “One hundred and fifty miles of low-treed tundra, ice-covered lakes, all blanketed with at least two feet of snow—fifty miles per day—a hundred and fifty miles of freezing temperatures and freezing winds.” In this portion of

Honk! Honk! Seat belts buckled? Have you ever wondered how America looked while sightseeing down Route 66 back in the past? As you often travel down a flat, straight road, you are thinking this road trip is terrible, but when you get on Route 66 you feel like a bird soaring through the sky. Most people choose to ride on the interstate to get to places quicker, while in my opinion taking the back roads is way better because you get to explore new sights. Way back in history route 66 was a unique road to travel on, and the story "The Best of America is on the Blue Highways," really explains why. This author gives great examples of driving on Route 66, and what it represents.

The Road is a novel by Cormac McCarthy depicting the toil of a man and a boy in a rather depressing world. However, on a larger scale, the man symbolizes the need for survival based instinctive action whereas the boy represents the pure virtue that is seldom found in a post apocalyptic world. First, the pair approach the man struck by lighting and the boy desires to help. However, the man understands the futility of any help for the man as well as the need to conserve resources. The man claims to

The Road is a novel that depicts a gritty story of survival, where a man and his son are sustained by love for each other. In a world coated with ash, a man walks down a lonesome road, accompanied solely by his son. The world was left barren and charred after an unknown disaster pillaged the land. Few people are left and supplies are dangerously scarce. Although a few kind souls remain in the ravages of America, savages reign over the land. In the novel, the pair is left, each the other’s world entire. They own very little and all their worldly possessions are pushed around in an old shopping cart, including some tarps, blankets, and some canned food. Starvation and lack of sustenance is a recurring situation that is solved time

Frost writes this poem with a calm and collective narration, spoken by the traveler, who is talking with himself trying to decide which road is the better choice. In line one Frost introduces the diverging roads, which are his main metaphors. Diverging being the key word in this line because it suggests that the traveler must make a choice. Line two the traveler expresses his grief of not being able to travel both. Yet, the choice is not easy, since "long I stood" (3)

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.

Ring Ring.Ring Ring. I awoke from my nap.Being Mayor of Fakersville isn't Easy.Creak.The Oldest door in the oldest building in the town Made that sound Every Time it Opened. “Mr Wilson,Someone is Calling You.” That is My secretary Jade. She is a little off. Something is just wrong with her.Something is Wrong with this whole town. It just isint normal.As I slowly pick up the phone wondering what incident happened now This Is the voice I hear. “Mr.Wilson,We need you down here right now boss.” “What happened Steven?” “Just Get down To Highway 92.” Steven is are Chief of A police. He’s not really good but he is the only one I got.But anyways let’s get back to the story.Great I thought. Another accident to make this town look

Imagine this. You only have $428 to buy gas, your job is deteriorating, and your wife recently divorced you. What do you think would you do? William Least Heat Moon is an American travel writer and has written one of the most prominent travel logs, Blue Highways. Blue Highways is about William Least Heat Moon's experiences on the road, as he dedicates himself to only drive on the blue highways of the country, or the lesser traveled roads. As he drives through small towns in 36 varying states, Heat Moon learns different customs, and he also meets an assortment of diverse people to help guide him on his adventure. While he's driving he also writes in great detail about the different dialects people have varying on where he goes, is awkwardly obsessed with the food

On The Road is an autobiographical first-person book written in 1951 and based on Kerouac's experiences of the late 1940's. At the time, America was undergoing drastic changes and the sense of sterility brought on

The 1950’s were a time of social conformity and singularity. The Cold War raged, as suspected communists were hunted. Anyone who didn’t fit into the little box that defined what was right would be accused. However, people known as the beat would revoke conformity, while other writers of the time period wanted to create a novel that defined the generation. On the Road by Jack Kerouac shows this time period through the eyes of a wanderlustful writer. He didn’t try to show the cultural geography of the common people who lived ordinary lives, but rather the wanderers who lived to see the diversity of America. On the Road by Jack Kerouac shows the cultural geography of the time period using the road and the

Dexter turned off the main highway onto a narrow dusty road that went on for miles and miles. Scrawny signs, handwritten on torn cardboard then stapled to dilapidated fence posts, showed up every few miles, leading the way. The punishing mess of turns on this desolate road was getting Mae carsick so she leaned against Greg’s shoulder and gazed out the window. “Where are we anyway? Nothing’s even out here. Can you imagine being stuck out here without a GPS to get us back out?”