Comparing The Man And The Boy In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road

In the book “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy the two protagonists, a boy and his father, are set out in a post apocalyptic world where everything is trying to kill them from cannibals to people with nothing. Their main goal is to travel down a road south where the climate is better for living. On their journey they encounter many life threatening obstacles including starvation and “bad guys” that they must overcome to survive. The paternal bond between the father and son is what pushes them beyond what could have been possible and allowed them to make it along their journey.

We see the protagonist mature throughout the story by listening to man announce the time. This provided the protagonist, as a young boy, a sense of certainty, reassurance and constant.

Introduction “The Road” is a post-apocalyptic novel of a journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by not only an unspecified cataclysm, but also the wrath of mankind in which case has destroyed most of civilization. Written by Cormac McCarthy, he depicts a dystopian world that has lost sight of humanity and its future. With this idea, McCarthy uses his unique skills as a writer who has won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2008 to establish various ambiguous themes throughout the novel. Even though the fiction tale will never change, each reader interprets the novel differently. One reader could focus on the Good vs Evil theme of the book while another

In the beginning of the story, he was an innocent kid without any worries or fears about his father or things that coming up. He tends to think positively about things around him. When the boy witnessed his father was about to beat his mother, he was scared, but then, he decided to stop his father from doing it. "The boy rose from his chair. ' No!'

In The Road, Cormac McCarthy uses figurative language, to demonstrate the difference in the people’s decisions and values when compared to the real world. The survivors of the apocalypse, including the father all had to undergo a series of radical changes in order to adapt and survive in the new world. When the father enters the house, where the people are kept for food, not only does he see naked people both male and female but also a man with his leg cut off. McCarthy writes, “On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and stumps of them blackened and burnt” (McCarthy 110).

The father’s wife had recently died, leaving him with the boy to take care of with the only mindset of keeping him alive, doing anything for their survival. This affected the father in a big way, leaving him with little hope and hardly any reason to stay alive, but the boy was “his warrant” (McCarthy 5) , his only reason for life. The boy starts out very scared and weak, always wanting to hide behind his father, knowing that one day he will die. The boy matures with every event that happens, and he maintains to have hope throughout most of them. “The man fell back instantly and lay with blood bubbling from the hole in his forehead.

In The Road, a novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 2006, a man and a boy struggle to survive as they travel south on the road in the post-apocalyptic world. On their journey to the coast, the man and the boy encounter the remains of an ashen world, ravaged by men who are willing to kill to survive. Among the death and destruction of the post-apocalyptic world, McCarthy illustrates how the man gains resilience from the spirituality he finds within his son, which proves how in a world void of official religion, belief in something greater than yourself creates the strength necessary to survive. The man sees his son as a spiritual figure that provides him the strength to survive in the desolate world.

In The Road, Cormac McCarthy demonstrates extreme sacrifices are necessary for survival. The Road describes the sacrifices and challenges of the man and the boy as they follow the road. The pair is inseparable and forced to make sacrifice after sacrifice to further their survival. From their experiences, readers begin to understand how far an individual is willing to go in order to survive.

The narrator characterizes the son as a young man who “loves the highway” (p.185), which is also the same as the narrator’s father. The two men both enjoy driving on the highways and both enjoy driving fast on the highways. While the men are driving they are both thinking about their girlfriends, with the father “thinking Alice” (p.183) and the son “heading for a date with that red-haired beauty of his” (p.184). That is shown when the two men both pass the narrator on the highway being very cautious when they do to make sure it is safe. Another similarity between the two men is when the narrator states “and like all Hill men, at least the two before him, wouldn’t he rather be playing ball?”

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In the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a man and his son struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Told through a lens of constant hardship, the book follows their arduous journey towards a coast in order to survive the winter. Throughout the novel, McCarthy shows that having hope enables people to persevere in dire circumstances because it counteracts the possibility of negative outcomes. First, the woman’s monologue about her death displays the despair necessary to abandon all hope.

In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a father and son are trying to survive an apocalypse, which demonstrates the strong relationship they develop throughout their journey to survive. The boy’s father says that, “His job is to take care of the boy. He was appointed to do that by God. He will kill anyone who touches the boy” (McCarthy 77). The father makes it clear that his number one priority in life is his son and to protect him at all costs.

(Page 198). As you both the boy and the man are not happy with the situation they are in and it is in fact bad for them both. If the world was not a dystopia the boy would be able to have a normal life with his mother and father however that is impossible for him.

In conclusion, the author of the novel, The Road, does a super good job showing the complex relationship that is between the father and son of the story. Using literary devices to show the importance of certain moments help the reader understand this relationship, and understand the trust shared between the

The long road the boy and father journey through does not always seem as though it is going to end well, but because of the boy and his unforgettable hope given to his father, the road becomes a bit more