Analysis: The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

unemployed, starving and freezing to death, and there was no stable government, because of the

had to prepare and cook the food that the men obtained.   Most of the time, they

Another problem for the colony of Jamestown was starvation. A major issue was the type of people they brought. Very

Putting food on the table may become a difficult task putting the family at risk for hunger (Martin, 2011).

Disgusted, she and her classmates stormed into the kitchen to find an explanation for the repulsive experience. She “knew exactly where the grits were kept from the time I had worked in the kitchen. I went straight to the pantry and saw that there was a big leak from the showers upstairs. The water was seeping right down onto the shelves” (Moody 256). Anne and her classmates boycotted the campus cafeteria and its food, refusing to yield until some sanitary fixes were implemented. The challenge here was finding other ways to stay fed. The students did not have enough money to last them more than a week or so, so eventually they all started back, one by one, to the cafeteria and its semi-sanitary food. Still repulsed, Anne refused to go back and began losing a lot of weight. She became so thin and hungry all the time that she resorted to writing her mother who brought her enough canned food to last the remainder of the semester. The challenge in staying fed with healthy, sanitary food was one which presented itself on a large scale for Anne at college and otherwise. Had she been unable to obtain food from her family, she may have starved to the point of fainting or even death. Overcoming this challenge was just about a matter of life or death for Anne.

These people had very poor food offerd them cuasing there bodues to be “thin and frail” as stated in document 7. Due to them being weak and frail many of them had poor immune systems cuasing them to be more prone to deasises. The laborers lived miserble lives working 12 hours a day and going home to poorly furnshex homes.

Silence fell again. The small boy sat next to his mother, crying. I started to breathe normally. We could begin to doze again, to rest, to dream…

Eventually they reached a work camp where they were forced to live in a cramped hut with another lady. They cut wood, made shoes, and farmed beets. They were there for more than a year. In that year they all lost a lot. They lost their hope for any sort of future, a lot of weight, and many died.

and lunch, but when they get home they don’t get to eat dinner. I have watched some videos on people

McCarthy shows how the man reacts to isolation when he leaves other men to suffer. As the man and the boy were walking on the road, a man approaches them in harsh conditions saying he was struck by lightning. The boy immediately asks his father to help the man knowing he will die if he is left untreated. But in fear of their security, the man denied his son. “The boy kept looking back. ‘Papa?’ he whispered. ‘What is wrong with the man?’ ‘He 's been struck by lightning’ says the man. ‘Can’t we help him? Papa?’ said the boy. ‘No. We can’t help him.’ The man refused. The boy kept pulling at his coat. ‘Papa? Can’t we help him?’ said the boy. ‘No. We can’t help him! There 's nothing to be done for him’ the man said” (pg. 50, McCarthy). The boy is worried for the man who was struck and wants to help him, but the man doesn’t care about the other man. The man

Five months were lost of harvest therefore, they had no food and the few who escaped survived eating sea craps.The author addresses:

Pilgrims faced many problems like dangerous illness and lack of food in the winter and they did

them having to constantly move from place to place they picked up many skills that helped them

Slave like conditions - Many victims are forced to live in deplorable conditions; becoming malnourished from lack of proper nutrients/unhealthy diet.

The lowborn workers toiled away for hours in physically exhausting jobs only to afford apartments that were sterile and cold. “There were some nine cots in the place . . . he was sick of the bareness and privation connected with his venture” (Dreiser, 304). The pay affected the men and woman’s own mode of life. They were forced to share living spaces with other families and more often than naught, had to bunk with complete strangers. The very comforts associated with a home, such as wood and furniture, were often too large of an expense. Even with Governmental/ Charity handouts the citizens had no money in which they could afford better living conditions. The rooms they were given to stay in were cold and sterile, and they were not guaranteed a place to stay every night.