Mccarthy The Road Analysis

Endings, the final attempt the author has to capture the audience’s attention. An ending can leave us feeling satisfied or in complete disappointment. An ending has the power to help the reader fully comprehend the book and make sense of the theme a author is trying to display. In the novel The Road, McCarthy takes a different kind of approach in using the conclusion to help illuminate the overall theme and allow the reader to grasp what they have read. McCarthy devotes the novel to focusing on the aspects of relationships. In order to emphasize the importance of relationships in the novel, McCarthy creates two characters a man and a son who struggle mentally and physically due to their relationships. For example, throughout the course of

Throughout the novel the audience learns that humans are not only dependent on each other, they are also dependent on nature itself. Due to the post apocalyptic event, everything living was destroyed, it is referenced throughout the novel, that humans would behave in unbearable manners in order to survive.”Sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us. They will rape me. They’ll rape him. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you won’t face it.”(McCarthy 56) Humans became cannibalistic in order to survive, without the resources provided by human nature, people became desperate. Instead of becoming cannibalistic, the son and father rely on nature to provide whatever it can in order to survive. “A charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit” ( McCarthy 167). Humans use to be so dependent on nature itself, they had nowhere else to turn, in order to survive they had to kill innocent human beings in order to keep going. In the second ending of the book, the audience is able to conclude that human beings become habituated on the earth to provide them with things like food and shelter in order to survive. Without nature, humans will perish. “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming.” (McCarthy 287) Back when there was life on earth, and resources were abundant, humans were not as dependent on the world. The relationship between human and the world was one sided. People did not take into consideration that the earth will subside into a disastrous matter, if humans