Abu Road

The road to any desired destination is individualistic and often hindered with difficulties. Dante Alighieri’s epic poem “Dante’s Inferno” and Robert Frost’s well known poem “The Road Not Taken” present the obstacles and choices made by two men. The approach and decisions made by Dante and Frost ultimately produce the similarities and differences between both poems. “Dante’s Inferno” and “The Road Not Taken” center around locational, situational and representational aspects of life and fate. The

Deep-Grained Love “A Worn Path” “’Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals! Keep the big wild hogs out of my path. Don’t let none of those come running my direction. I got a long way’” (92) English Literature, Robert Diyanni. A Worn Path is an eloquent story, written in third person narration with colorful language that draws the reader deeper into the plot and the setting of the story. Throughout the story, the word old appears more than twenty times.

In the midst of immorality, God always provides a solution. Although the world has been close to complete immorality in the past, morality has never ceased to exist. The world in The Road by Cormac McCarthy is very close to amorality, but God shows that he is working through the man and boy. McCarthy uses two Biblical allusions to Israel to create two themes for the reader. The first is an allusion of the man and boy’s journey to the exodus of Israel out of Egypt. This allusion shows that the

In Richard Wagamese’ novel, Medicine Walk, he narrates the journey of a distanced father and son who are searching for an understanding, love and forgiveness. Wagamese portrays this by using clever humour, authentic dialogue, and outstanding storytelling skills. Medicine Walk clearly illustrates the story of a father’s redemption through storytelling and of a son finding connections to the world through his family’s past. The novel brings us along a journey into the past recounting Eldon’s life story

Cormac McCarthy adapts and changes traditional archetypes in his novel, “The Road” to support the theme of extreme skepticism interfering with basic everyday things, such as moving on from the past. McCarthy uses archetypes such as “The Innocent One”, “Good versus Bad”, “The Journey”, and “The Philosopher” to display to his audience the idea that these archetypes contribute to one of the woes of postmodernism -- extreme skepticism. The archetype of “The Innocent One” contributes to the theme of extreme

The two dystopian texts, The Road is written by Cormac McCarthy and The Island directed by Michael Bay are great examples of a dystopian world. The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel where a father and son have nothing but the dirty clothes on their backs, a pistol and a cart filled with scavenged items. Their destination, the coast, although they don’t know if anything awaits them there. The Island is an advanced world where clones of “real” people are made in order to help their clients live longer

to love about Christmas. That is, of course, until that beautiful white snow I have always loved suddenly decides it would rather have my car upside down on an icy dirt road. It was Christmas morning, and I was on my way to my grandparents’ house. My grandparents live on a narrow dirt road, and every year we know that the road is

Wouldn’t it be best for a responsible driver to dispose of roadkill on a dangerous road rather than swerve and endanger your life and the lives of other ignorant drivers? You might say “of course!” and it seems to be an easy decision to make. However, in William Stafford’s poem “Traveling through the dark” the speaker finds this decision very difficult. The speaker stops and finds a dead and pregnant doe. After wrestling with his dilemma, he chooses to push the body into the river below rather than

Cormac McCarthy’s tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing, yet deeply personal work, published in 2006. A setting stripped of all natural life with a father and son as the sole survivors of a post nuclear holocaust. The Road is essentially an existential tale as the father and son have one focus: to survive and to attain some meaning in their lives. Without any cultural and economic influences, the father and son must carve out their existences from a world devoid of life. The only meaning that

The world is a very unique place with unique rules. The world doesn’t think a lot about what it would look like without laws. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a novel about a post-apocalyptic world, and what is takes to survive. There is a man and his son within the story, trying to survive after a nuclear attack. There aren’t any laws or standards left in the world, after the bomb destroys everything. The novel conveys a vivid idea of the world after a tragic event, and it’s not pleasant. Society