The Road by McCarthy is a prime example of representing how the characters experience exile in both alienating and enriching forms. The book is about a father and a boy that are running away from the darkness of the world. The conditions that they are put in are excruciating because of the cold temperatures and the lack of resources that make it extremely harder to come to a conclusion on what the next step is. Exile teaches both the father and the son on how to depend on each other based on the cards they are dealt with, they are put through difficult task but they keep each other inspired through the darkness and decisions they take.
The themes of both books are both knowledge is power. Both of the settings are around the same time period and they are dystopias. Finally, the characters of the two stories are both lifeless wives and the main characters are against the society. This shows how the two stories are similar by themes, settings, and
Annotated Bibliography McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print. The Road is set in a grim atmosphere.
they are both dystopian novels but they both do have different things and they don't tell the same story it's different but yet has things in common. First of all, one similarity from these novels is how they are not using any technology to try and to survive or trying to find their way out. Also, in both stories they have barely any food to survive. Another, similarity is in both stories they both have ways to survive. In The Maze Runner they are trapped in a maze and it's just a bunch of teenagers they all try to find a way out and end up going through the maze to find a way out without being hurt or killed.
Combat is one of those incidents, where the best and the worst of people will be shown. The effects from combat could last minutes to a lifetime and will define people for the rest of their lives. To overcome the effects, people must have coping mechanisms. In the book, The Things They Carried, a platoon of soldiers is followed in their quest to survive the Vietnam War. The soldiers developed coping mechanisms to deal with stress so they can function normally and survive the war.
In the widely popular novel, Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer justifies Chris McCandless's actions through a developed, in-depth personal narrative. McCandless’s quest into the wilderness encountered the unlucky side of fate when Mccandless was found dead in bus 142 on the Stampede Trail. Krakauer addresses a majority audience that has an unfavorable perception of McCandless, seeing him as one of the “others”, a category of mad adventurers whose suicidal predispositions lead them to their fate in the wild. Using an array of rhetorical strategies, Krakauer explores Mccandless’s journey, proving he was not merely a crazy, arrogant, and ignorant kid. His journey into the wild had good intentions, however sometimes you get the short end of the stick.
In both dystopian novels they prove their points on how their society is different in relationship but the same in the concept of equality. Both are different by relationship but the same in equality and each society discovers the way of individualism. In our future everyone should believe individualism will be applied to our daily lives and the government will remove
Although, they have similarity, the two stories has major differences also. First, both author differs the way they introduce and develop their lead characters to the reader. Second, they also differ in perspective from which their stories are being told. Third, they differs on the choice of settings and how it impact to the stories.
Oh, the People You’ll Help! Take a moment to imagine, living on the streets, your hair is unkempt, hands are dirty, a holey Walmart plastic bag is the only thing holding your meager personal belongings. You are starving with no clue where your next meal is coming from. This is a reality for over 43.6 million Americans living in poverty and are homeless (McClatchy). These Americans struggle emotionally and physically living on the streets, especially with the stress of not knowing when and where they will get their next meal.
Survival is often introduced as a concept of endurance, persistence and perseverance, a textbook idea about simply living or dying. At the inception of human life, merely surviving was imperative and existence was something that humans fought for on a daily basis. But, as we flourish independently, as societies and as a race, the concept of survival is warped, and growth as an individual, as well as coping with everyday hardships and not just traditional examples of adversity such as poverty and destitution are prime examples of survival. In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, the reader is presented with the idea that survival is not synonymous to staying alive, and moreover, that cultural and societal struggles shape self in accordance with the way we face them. Survival of the fittest is the primordial notion that only the fit have the power and strength to live, and more importantly, thrive in their environment.
The novel, 1984, can be most closely compared with the popular book and movie series, The Hunger Games. Overt comparisons between the two novels include their futuristic approach and the dystopian societies that emerged after periods of war. Additionally, both novels highlight poverty as a highly effective method of control. Building on that method of control, both novels have a strict hierarchy of society used to control the masses.
In both novels the stories take place in a dystopian society, shorty after a nuclear fallout/war. Quite the opposite of a utopia, this is a society based on the future that is frightening and unpleasant for the people living in it. The government has total control of the people, dictating what is allowed and what is not. There is total social control in both novels by the government controlling what is on the television by brainwashing and dumbing down their citizens.
He took up a unique hobby: killing small animals, skinning them, and scraping off their flesh with acid. In a backyard shed, he displayed his collection of squirrel and chipmunk skeletons. He also created his own, private pet cemetery at the side of his house. Sometimes he didn’t bury the bodies.
They are both very different and very alike and that is why they appeal to the readers of dystopian stories. They make the readers think about the future what might happen. Works
While Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a novel based on a society that problems occur from inequality and differences, focuses on the survival and which the main character Katniss stands out as a leader, and The Giver by Lois Lowry is a novel based on a society that problems occur from being too perfect and same, focuses on the importance of memory and past and which the main character Jonas stands out as a rebel for himself and very few people; both texts share similarities such as being dystopian novels which symbols used and one teenager stands out from a society and rebels. On the one hand, Hunger Games and The Giver contrast in many ways. Comparing the societies of these novels based on; while Hunger Games has a story of a society which
