Short Story My Father Went Away By Doris Mccarthy

McCarthy starts his novel in the woods, where the father realises that his son and himself will not survive another winter in their current location thus having to keep moving South. As the father stares into the nothingness of the country he starts to think about his son, “He only knew that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke” (5). Knowing that it will get harder to survive, the father believes that his reason to keep living is because of his son. He proves this thought during the conversation between him and the little boy who asks what the father would do if he died: “If you died I would want to die too...So I could be with you” (11). The father’s only

A man and a child, father and son, are alone against an inclement nature while pushing a cart filled with tools, blankets, and things that they have found along the way to the south. About ten years before the world had been reduced to ashes by an apocalyptic disaster, which it is not known whether it was caused by a natural event or the foolishness of human beings. The world is reduced to a single color, gray, that of the ashes covering all that is left, that of hearts and minds, clouded by the pain of the loss and the terror of solitude. All that is left of the humankind is a few tenacious survivors struggling unceasingly against hunger and cold, and those who have lost any trace of humanity giving free vent to the lowest instincts of oppression and violence. But in the novel “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the catastrophic consequences of a cataclysm that are nothing more than an excuse to minimize the outer contingencies with the sole purpose to bring up what is really dear to his heart, the relationship between a father and a son. They have been deliberately left unnamed for the whole story to epitomize the archetypes of the man and the child, a hymn to paternity, and to unconditional love. In a world reduced to the essentials, McCarthy aims not merely to explore the complexities of the relationship between the two, which in fact remains

In the novel McCarthy writes about how the boys mother killed herself because she couldn’t handle the gloom of a world she was living in, along with the fear of cannibalistic cults. She left her son ‘the boy’ behind without a mother which left the boy to grow up without that motherly nurturing influence in his life which lead to the boy maturing a lot faster than he would have

In both 1984 by George Orwell and The Road by Cormac McCarthy the characters draw hope and possibility from their relationships with each other. It is through these relationships that they are able to survive in their worlds that have been plagued by corruption and lack humanity. In his novel, The Road, Cormac McCarthy describes a setting stripped of almost all humanity in a disaster-torn world devoid of almost all human life. Yet despite the unfavourable setting in which the novel takes place, the characters are still able to find hope in each other.

The father passionately and consistently demonstrates his love to his son that was hope for him and is his only reason to keep going. He was ready to take whatever action needed, even if violent, to ensure his son's life and make any sacrifices for his interest from giving him the cola to enjoy or giving him more blankets to keep him warm. The father works so hard to encourage his son that they are good persons who hold the fire of goodness, and that they would certainly not do things like eat other humans. It is clear that McCarthy’s purpose in creating the character of the boy is tied to a hopeful viewpoint on human nature and the human condition because hope is the only driving factor we can have to make good future. In the novel, the positive

McCarthy uses a lot of different quotes in the novel to symbolizes different things such as violence, love, mortality, spirituality, isolation, good vs evil, memory and the past, strength and skill, versions of reality and compassion and forgiveness. The man in the novel looks after the boy and make sure he has everything he needs before he provides for himself. He wants the boy to experience things and make sure he has a good life because he know his time is almost up and he wants to spend the time with the boy and make sure he is doing great. McCarthy’s writing style reflects sparseness in that he chooses to write in fragments and he keeps the father’s and son’s dialogue turbulent. Also the language of this novel reflects the skeletal and barren landscape through which father and son must

In order for a child to live in a complete and happy family, the paternal love plays a major role in a child’s life, especially the love of a father which is as much important as a mother’s love for a child. Moreover, a father’s love is one of the greatest influences on the child’s personality development throughout his/her life. A father’s love brings a sense of protection of security in a child. In the novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy presents the great example of paternal love. The novel deals with a post-apocalyptic story about an unnamed man and his unnamed child as they move toward the south to find a better place to live after the catastrophic event. The son is the only reason for the father to survive in the post-apocalyptic world.

In the novel, the boy has no reason to be enshrouded with goodness, but yet he is the most moral character in the novel. The boy was born into the apocalypse, so the only world he is familiar with is one filled with violence, chaos, and ungodly acts. The fact that the boy does not let the violence and murderousness of this new world affect his persona depicts the theme of youthful innocence in which McCarthy believes. Throughout the novel, the boy is concerned about not doing anything that would be viewed as immoral. When his father comes across new supplies, the boy always asks for assurance that whoever the supplies had belonged to will not need them anymore.

Despite his emphasis on the father's unrestricted love for his son, Cormac McCarthy persistently reminds the reader of the novel's dire surroundings through his introduction of malevolent characters, and the use of a disheartened setting thus conveying his bleak suspense for the future of civilization and cracking light on humanity's naive nature. “The man,”( Wilson) as McCarthy like to call our mysterious fellow in the book. McCarthy never reviles his full name to anyone.Unqualified maternal love between father and son. The theme among a son and father is appearing, altruistic as together the characters the role of conqueror. Humanity survival, hope the encouragement of the moral and wicked, the authority of faith can be seen throughout the novel in different characters presentations. “While McCarthy's novels share Dewey's broadly anti-supernatural and anti-ecclesiastical commitments, there are some areas of divergence between the two that allow us to reflect critically on the distinction between religion and "the religious."( Metcalf)” Survival was used the father and son to stay alive. The fire in the road is also very significant because deprived of it the boy and his father would undoubtedly have frozen to death. The fire signifies refinement and triumph.

McCarthy shows in his novel the Road how one’s experiences mold their reactions, and help the individual find the things worth living or dying for. Whether it be struggle, compassion, or love, the reader must decide for themselves what is worth living for. Though we may approach death differently, we are made human, when we all come together to accept the same

In order for a child to live in a complete and happy family, the paternal love plays a major role in a child’s life, especially the love of a father which is as much important as a mother’s love. Moreover, a father’s love is one of the greatest influences on the child’s personality development throughout his/her life. A father’s love brings a sense of protection of security in a child. In the novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy present the great example of paternal love. The novel deals with a post-apocalyptic story about an unnamed man and his unnamed child as they move toward the south to find a better place to live after the catastrophic event. The son is the only reason for the father

The woman pleaded for the man and their son to follow along in her footsteps and to end their lives with her due to her fear of being taken by “the bad guys” in The Road. However, the father and son did not oblige to her demands and treaded down the broken road together in search for a brighter day. The starvation and disease brought on by the weather and lack of supplies continues to deteriorate the lives that are left to rummage through the earth. In this world, it is survival of the fittest. Those who come first live, and those who come last will be lucky to obtain any scraps or remnants that may be left behind. The color black is often used to symbolize darkness, death, and remorse; three moods that McCarthy conveys throughout his writing to exhibit the amount of hopelessness and misery that the boy and his father experience on their journey.

"McCarthy's prose restores the terror and grandeur of the physical world with a biblical gravity that can shatter a reader. A page from any of his books--minimally punctuated, without quotation marks, avoiding apostrophes, colons or semicolons--has a stylized spareness that magnifies the force and precision of his words. Unimaginable cruelty and the simplest things, the sound of a tap on a door, exist side by side...."

After traveling on the road for what appears to be years in an apocalyptic environment the father and son come across a treat: a can of Coca Cola. The Coke can symbolizes a number of things for McCarthy: the deprivation of his characters, the disintegration of consumer-capitalist society, and the magical quality of everyday things in this setting. When the world has smoldered away to a husk of its former self and life becomes a struggle for survival, something as small and insignificant as a can of Coke symbolizes a powerful connection to the past and an escape backwards if only for an instant. Besides the can itself, the father’s decision to give it to the son symbolizes his priority of putting the boy before himself. It represents our collective

This passage, like so many others, shocks the reader. It is nearly impossible to comprehend this level of cruelty. McCarthy describes it objectively, as if this type of horror were commonplace, which it is in this novel. The novel focuses on the kid's existence in a world of depravity that seems foreign to the reader but is all