Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

The documentary follows U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce and shows his journey after an extreme sports injury. An escalating competition between Kevin and his rival Shaun White in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics leaves Shaun on top of an Olympic podium and Kevin in a coma following a training accident in Park City, Utah. Kevin's family flies to his side and helps him rebuild his life as a brain injury survivor. But when he insists he wants to return to the sport he still loves, his

could end in the matter of days. A meteor could hit the earth causing a post apocalyptic outbreak to occur just like it did in the novel of “The Road” by Cormac Mccarthy. Some would have to grow up in the new world not knowing how the old world was like and face it head on. In this novel a man and his son give each other hope by traveling south everyday trying to get to warm weather by following the road. Even in an Apocalyptic world humanity in the boy and man raises and prevails upon everything else

The post-apocalyptic novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, explores the endeavours of a man and his son in a demoralized and destroyed world. The author accurately represents the level of stress humans experience in dire situations. The immoral circumstances result in characters responding irrationally rather than conscientiously when being decisive, opposite to the logical figure they portray. This novel is exclusively about the strength humans have when encountering something traumatising or problematic

Road is a fantastic post apocalyptic novel that deals with changing the world for the better. In it Mccarthy shows the journey of a father and his son through a beaten up world. By doing so he symbolizes the change that needs to be made and how the son needs to carry the flame and bring out the good in humanity.` To begin the novel The Road takes place on a very long and extrucionating road. This is very symbolic because the road seems everlasting and unchanging. In an apocalyptic world this follows

The Persistence of the Plague Hollywood has always possessed the unique ability to channel the inner most desires of the common man through material culture. Yes, unbeknownst to you, your mind has become infected with delusions of grandeur stemming from today 's entertainment industries. We are surrounded by news of celebrity drama, as they interact exclusively with one another, creating a social class comprised entirely of their own types. The artists, the athletes, actors, politicians, all the

SETTING The Maze Runner is taken place in the post-apocalyptic era. The characters are in the middle of a massive maze. The shelter in the middle is called the Glade. PLOT The Maze Runner is about a boy named Thomas who is brought to a place called the Glade. He arrives there in a big elevator that they call the Box. Thomas has no memory about how he got in the Box or who he is. The only thing he knows is his name. When he gets out of the Box he is greeted by a group of about 50 teenage boys

the most profound relationship in the book and the strength of it raises the standard of the novel. The relation of the father and the son is very strong and symbolizes protection to the child. They take the initiative to struggle and live in an apocalyptic place which has been completely destroyed. The father is like the soul of his son and the very last hope for the son to survive .The son finds support in his son when he goes through the stages of loneliness and despair. It is a natural way for

Published in 2006, while America was still reeling from the devastating terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Cormac McCarthy 's The Road attempts to recreate the emotions of the dire situation by ushering in new masculinity normalcies. McCarthy uses a father and his son to demonstrate the social changes that occurred in America during a time of turmoil. America had to work together in ways it had not before, and this is demonstrated by the father’s assumption of feminine qualities while protecting

set in a post-apocalyptic world, where the date and location is unnamed. The author of the novel Cormac McCarthy doesn 't describe why or how the disaster has demolish the earth. But after reading the novel, I can sense that the author wanted to present a case of mystery and fear to the unknown to the reader. By the author 's exclusion I think that the story gains a better understanding of what the author wanted to express to the reader. An expression of a man and his son surviving in a post-apocalyptic

different on the way they look at arising situations. People perceive situations either two ways: optimistically or pessimistically. In the book, the author showed both ways of how a person would react either optimistically or pessimistically in a post-apocalyptic world. He showed this with two characters, the man and the boy, the man reacting both pessimistically and optimistically in situations, and the boy being the optimistic character.