Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

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 Road by Cormac McCarthy tells the story of a father and his son trying to survive in a post- apocalyptic world. In the book, McCarthy sets up different themes and he constructs them through his choices in The Road. One theme McCarthy shows is that in a world of despair, we must choose to focus on the good things, we can focus on these good things only if we let ourselves do so. McCarthy displays this theme when the father remembers his wife’s death. This memory occurs to the man after his

Oftentimes one’s own outlook on life changes when they know that their life will soon end. In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, the characters struggle to keep moving forward in their final days of living. The mother, father and the son deal with catastrophe in contrasting ways, but ultimately they must each face death. In McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic world, each character must deal with the knowledge there is no future, in their own ways. The mother in particul must deal with this

of a post-apocalyptic era in which a father and son journey to survive. McCarthy is known for his dark writing style and vivid imagery in his writings. He uses these to develop the characters and the themes of his novels. In his bestselling novel The Road, McCarthy uses this imagery and dark writing style to develop the characters of the father and son, their struggle to survive, and the themes of morality, isolation, and love. In The Road, a father and son are living in a post-apocalyptic world

In each of the apocalyptic texts and movie that the class discussed, generosity plays a significant role in how each story expands and tells itself. Each of the texts has a connection to the way Peter Heller portrays his characters' generosity and the way human instincts for survival happen in The Dog Stars. Peter Heller though shows that the world after the apocalypse can still be full of good people and generosity. The movie The Road discusses the act of generosity through the actions of a young

‘God in a Godless World’ The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s novel portrays a gripping tale of survival of a father and son across a post-apocalyptic world that is devoured by marauders and cannibals that have abandoned all of their beliefs, morals and values and will do anything to survive. In contrast, the two protagonists are portrayed as the ‘good guys’ who carry the ‘fire’, and survive in the obliterated world with their own beliefs, morals and values constantly being challenged by the antagonists.

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a boy and a man battle the unforgiving voyage of a world where an apocolypse has occoured. They leave everything they have to go and try to find some safety and refuge. The two battle to stay alive versing hunger, dehydration, and cannibalism. There are many points in the book where I didn’t think they were going to make it, where I thought they were going to just lay down and give up.Yet they don't give up at all, they keep going until they cannot go anymore. The

task refers: Part 4- Literature, a critical study Prescribed question: How does the text conform to, or deviate from, the conventions of a particular genre, and for what purpose? My critical response will: ● Show how the text conforms to the post-apocalyptic genre. ● Show how resources, including basics such as food and water, are a scarcity. ● Show how the weakest suffer, with slavery a possibility, and human life is cheap. ● Show the weather is bad due to some nuclear fallout ● Show how morals

The Road is a grim book set in an even more grim place. With the fall of civilization, the struggle for the human race is to preserve what it means to be human and not to get caught up in surviving by any means necessary. The magic of The Road is that even in such a world filled with unspeakable violence and fulfilled taboo, the reader is never as far removed from the characters in the book. Through the use of the battle for humanity and taboo, the reader is connected to the book at an uncomfortably

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) a father and son illustrate dedication towards each others lives by surviving in a post-apocalyptic world. Through hard times both characters deal with facing death and admitting that they both want to die, but they depend on one another to continue survival in this dreadful world. McCarthy describes this as a recurring theme throughout the book. The idea of death is a constant threat, but through reliance and love of others one can persevere. In stressful situations