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Annotated Bibliography: The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

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Annotated Bibliography McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print. The Road is set in a grim atmosphere. It is after apocalypse world where all signs of life are extinct. People and animals are starving, and predatory groups of savages wander around with pieces of human bodies stuck in their teeth. It is both oppressive and disheartening. McCarthy sets an atmosphere like one mediately after the world wars. It is not far-fetched to imagine the possibility of such a sad environment today. The novel tells a story of an unnamed man and his son in who struggle to survive in this horrific environment. I feel that the language in the novel is verbose. McCarthy is blunt in his descriptions. He uses repeated struggles and similar scenes forcing the reader to share the tough experience of the characters. I agree with the author that The Road is the picture of a post-apocalyptic world. I also agree with the opinion that suffering might never end, like the novel indicates through imagery at the very end. The author manages to combine happy moments with sad ones even though the sad ones takes the larger share. In addition, he accomplished his aim of having an audience that is glued to the book all along sine it is both engaging and informative. The author has a perception that the world is composed of more bad things than the good ones. This novel will be important to me as I explore the themes of post-apocalyptic fears and human struggles. However, I do feel that he leans too heavily on sadness …show more content…

By The Waters Of Babylon. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1990. Print. In this work of literature there is a young hero who is also a priest 's son. This boy wants to become a priest some day during a period of burning and destruction. This boy is comparable to the young unnamed boy in the Road who is being natured by his father to become a hero. They both live in a similar era of struggles ad are expected to become strong as they

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He creates a world of crisis and shows that during times of crises, people’s true qualities come to light and sadly, when tensions are highest, morals seem to lose precedence. This is evidenced by the various groups of cannibals and marauders they have to escape from or defeat simply to make it to the next day. Despite their actions, which in our society would clearly be illegal and amoral, the father is affirmed in his idea that they are “the good guys” and must do what they can to survive and “carry the fire.” McCarthy paints a world that demonstrates that when self-preservation must come at the expense of others, people give in to their darker qualities in order to survive, at any

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Every year the people’s hopes were being built up of this new life because the government kept providing false hope. In a sense these people were in bondage and did not realize how crucial of a life they were living in. Reading the book and watching the movie made me realize how much a governmental system can brain wash the people when the persons believe that committing such an act like killing would eventually end them with a prosperous life in the

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In Victoria Hoyle's scrutinization of the novel The Road she notices that it has two purposes. McCarthy's first purpose depicts a post-apocalyptic world, where God is nearly dead and humanity is holding on by a thread. The Road is set after a nuclear war that has demolished most of civilization. The admonition used in The Road is referred to as a "clarion warning" to preserve our beautiful world, for if we do not change our current path of ignorance and insolence it could lead to inevitable doom. She states her first claim by showing the examples of barbarity and crudeness that are orchestrated throughout The Road.

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It tells of how people and things can be helpful in life, although can turn out to be something negative and dangerous. It also shows that what people believe is not always true, and that things will not just get handed to people, everyone has to work for it. It demonstrates this with the character, “The Boy,” she encounters him in the woods after she had just sat to rest. He appears with a plate of cake, when she reaches, it was not there, he was never there just a part of her

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