Examples Of Cannibalism In Cormac Mccarthy

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In the novel, Cormac McCarthy presents an ashen place where a man and boy struggle to overcome a unknown tragedy, forcing themselves to go through thick and thin to survive.They endure harsh weather, decaying morals of mankind, and the greed to want to eat more than they should. There is very little food for it has been savagely ransacked after desolation struck, leaving people to starve and to resort to cannibalism. There are thieves who call themselves marauders , who take away what little food a scavenger has, forcing them to again resort to becoming a savage being. The world which has become “barren, silent, godless, ()” is no place for the man’s child to go through, but the man knows they have to “forever struggle through cold coagulate,