Comparing Mccarthy And Cold Mountain

The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier are stories badgered with conflict, anxiety, and passionate self-confidence. The Road is about a man and his son living in a post-apocalyptic world, scavenging for food and shelter for survival. Cold Mountain includes both the story of Inman, an impaired civil war veteran struggling to travel back home to his lover, Ada, and Ada’s story as she has to deal with her father’s death and run her farm single handedly. Although the plots of these two books are rather different, they do hold noteworthy similarities. The two novels hold lots of travel, where the characters face their challenges, for instance the scarcity of food, people they meet, and many others. One more similarity

In Cold Mountain, the story is set in a fictional town in the southern area of the Appalachian mountains in Several times throughout the story, Charles Frazier describes every component and detail of the nature. In The Road everything is described as dark and covered in ashes because of the destruction and wildfires produced by the apocolypse. “They passed through the city at noon of the day following. He kept the boy close to his side. The city was mostly burned. No sign of life. Cars in the streets caked with ash, everything covered with ash and dust. Fossil tracks in the dried sludge. A corpse in a doorway dried to leather…”( 16) In Cold Mountain, the story takes in 1864, near the end of the civil war. In many instances the novel includes events that occurred during and after the civil war. In The Road, you are never told the actual date and time the novel takes place. However you can decipher that it takes place in the near future because of the Man's flashback to when he was a kid. “They walked through the dining room where the firebrick in the hearth was as yellow as the day it as laid because his mother could not see it blackened. The floor buckled from the rainwater. In the livingroom the bones of small animal dismembered and placed in a pile. Possibly a cat. A glass tumbler by the