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The Post Apocalyptic Genre And Anxieties Everyday Life

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The Post-Apocalyptic Genre and Anxieties Everyday Life
Naturally, a person who is facing anxiety might may pull away from conditions that have triggered similar feelings in the past. Anxieties are of different types including existential anxiety which results from facing an existential crisis, angst, and nihilistic feelings. Other categories of anxiety are test anxiety, stage fright, stage fright, and somatic anxiety. Stranger anxiety and social anxiety occur when a person is around a strangers (Karam et al.). Such anxieties are evident in The Road, and McCarthy illustrates this in a verbose way. Anxieties in the road are both short term and long term. Whereas long-term anxieties are mainly worried about what will befall them in during the uncertain times. Unlike anxieties in today 's real world, anxieties in the road are not treated in conventional ways. There are no psychologists to attend to the fears of the people in The Road. The only remedy is love from family. 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

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