Dirt road

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

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

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

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

“He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke” (McCarthy, 5). Throughout The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, the young boy is repeatedly seen as a Christ-like symbol to the man; a sign of hope and good morality. While the man is more occupied with finding food and fending for him and the boy, the boy is much more concerned over other people and their survival. The boy wants to consistently make sure him and his father are still “carrying the

During the winter months in Toronto, we often see road salt used so much that once there was even a shortage!Most people from Toronto have to know that we use salt on our road, and some even use it on their driveways, but few know what the road salt actually does and how it affects us in the long run.The issue I'm going to be discussing today is whether we should or shouldn't put salt on our roads.There is no other solution than to not do this, so I’m writing to you today to tell you why I think

What Goes Around Comes Around A conscious choice is one we make knowing its effects will either be beneficial or harmful to ourselves or others. In the following short stories, “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, and “If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke as well as the poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale and Psalm 137 from the Bible, this message is portrayed in a number of ways. Each story provides the reader

something important about life in a special way In the poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the author uses a variety of phrases that contains symbolism. All of this symbolism also leads up to a very common theme that we must usually several times in our lives. First of all, this poem uses a lot of symbolism to reveal many things that also applies to us in our lives. To begin with, Robert Frost describes two (2) similar roads. One thing he says to support his is,"both that morning equally

Abbey Road is an iconic photograph taken by Iian Macmillan in the sixties. Iian stood on a ladder in the middle of the road in order to capture the shot of the beatles, an originally british band that came to the states, walking across the street in perfect sync. The photo itself lives on to this day throughout Rock and Roll culture. The picture highlights the four members of the band walking across a street in perfect sync. The sky is painted a simple sky blue and the trees are a deep emerald