Cormac Mccarthy The Road Analysis

After the events of WWII, the interest in post-apocalyptic literature raised drastically. A Canticle for Leibowitz written by Walter Miller Jr. was the first generation novel of destruction literature after the events of Nagasaki and Hiroshima; author incorporated the fresh ideas and visions of his own personal experience as an Air Corps soldier while creating the world of the novel. Miller chose religion as the centre idea of the novel, and adapted his unique writing style to emphasize the importance of the theme presented. This was achieved by naming the characters of the novel with the names that are found in the Bible, and incorporating the language of the Church which is Latin. Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road used similar approach while developing and creating the world of the

The Road mainly emphasizes the importance of post-apocalyptic environment, as it looks that bleakness and emptiness of the world is the most important thing. Instead of just using words masterfully to describe the emptiness of the world McCarthy strengthens the idea of desolation by creating grammatical irregularities in his work, which omissions some parts of correct grammar such as quotation marks, punctuation and parenthesis. Contrary to the Miller's sentences which usually start with the simple subject and verb which are then followed by the necessary information to complete the sentence, McCarthy followed the same path in his novel by using simpler sentence structures, which in some cases became the grammatical irregularities created by the author himself such as using verb less sentences that are under normal circumstances viewed as grammatically incorrect. The tones used in the novels are rather similar to each other as both authors sift the tone of the story when the need