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Hope Reality And Foreshadowing In Nevaeh The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

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What purpose do the father's memories and dreams serve in the road? Hope reality and foreshadowing will explain the purpose of the dreams and memories. Truly a thought that takes lots of thinking and even multiple readings as it is hard to absorb and understand everything in the book.

In the book there are many separate times where both the boy and the man have good dreams and flashbacks. Usually this would seem normal, but the man says, “a man in peril were dreams of peril.” (McCarthy 18). There are many good dreams in the book as well as memories. Having these dreams and memories help keeps the man hopeful and wanting to fulfill his late wife's last request …show more content…

Foreshadowing is commonly used this way, and the author Cormac McCarthy uses it well. The first bit of foreshadowing could very well be the very first dream that is introduced into the book. The man dreams of a very peculiar dream of him and the boy in a cave. They play as water drips in the background as time is senseless in that moment. Soon they come across a creature that is unlike them as it looks inhumane as its inside are on full display to the two and it drinks from a large lake. This dream is one that is very interpretive. Many thoughts and ideas fly around like how the time and water are intertwined like a pair of headphones that sat in a pocket for five minutes. Or how the creature is a prediction on how inhumane society can be as the organs very well could signify their true intentions (McCarthy 3-4). There are many more dreams that foreshadow including a dream or really more of a nightmare that the boy has that of course does come to fruition of the long impending death of the man (McCarthy 183). An effective way that the author made the death seem like just a sour dream for the boy is by making the father dream of the others death first. This gives the feeling that neither could die because they are the main characters, they cannot simply die. But one did. Another prominent dream that foreshadows is the snake pit dream (McCarthy 188). The dream is exactly how it sounds, and it is one that also has some decoding to do. In this dream there are a few main points that easily help understand what it could mean. One is snakes, snakes in the media have always been portrayed as evil. Think of the garden of Eden or some terms like slippery snake, with this dream it is certainly no exception. A good thought is that the snakes could very well be the ones that do not carry the fire and that also eat their future. The

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