What Are The Literary Devices In The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

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Essay#1: The Road: Cormac McCarthy’s Penmanship
Cormac McCarthy declared to Oprah Winfrey his personal sentiments that he prefers "simple declarative sentences" and that he uses capital letters, periods, an occasional comma, and or a colon for setting off a list only, but "never a semicolon." He does not use quotation marks for dialogue and believes there is no reason to "blot the page up with weird tiny marks." So indeed, Cormac McCarthy demonstrates an idiosyncratic composition demeanor in his marquee novels. He is an author that does not stick to convention when it comes to writing. McCarthy does not seem to enjoy using weird grammar points or symbols unless they are absolutely essential. McCarthy’s manner illustrates the novel’s occurrences …show more content…

Dialogues are not fully set apart from each other. Instead they mix in with the prose of the story. McCarthy employs punctuation, spaces, and short verses of poetry to express the themes and to accentuate the main characters.
McCarthy is a minimalist author who prefers only to use periods and capitalization. He lets the words and or composition speak for itself. He detests semi-colons. The key literary devices employed to meet this end are flashbacks, repetition, and vibrant illustrations of Mother Earth. The bleak imagery he evokes aims to impress upon the reader the hard circumstances that the man and boy are enduring. In the book, the protagonists confront the identical themes in their dialogue. The constant themes are whether they will perish due to starvation, them supposedly being the “good guys”, and carrying the fire within themselves. These slogans or repeating phrases bring to light the steady themes of the end of life, anarchy, and low survivability to the fore. Continuing on, the different flashbacks are intermingled with the pictures of a deteriorating Earth inhabited by heartless people and of a flourishing Mother Earth, highlight the …show more content…

The pauses can give readers a time to rest and or reflect on the story. The barren nature of the paragraphs reflects of losing hope in the ravaged land of ash. On The Road, the father and son just scavenge for food and water in order to survive. The spaces in the book may represent the luck they have constantly, even in the direst situations. The spaces are like an oasis in the

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