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Summary Of The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

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In the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a famous author, talks about about survival through a father and his boy in a post-apocalyptic time. The main idea is that the boy and his father journey on a road to survival and have to face many life threatening struggles. These struggles are cannibals, murders, lack of resources, and keeping the fire burning to help find a better life for them self. There are many themes of evolution presented in this novel but a few main ones are survival of the fittest, Predators vs. Prey, and the fight or flight theory in which they know when to stand up for themselves or escape just in time to keep themselves alive. Also Intellectual Dexterity is one too. In the book, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories

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