On page four in the second paragraph, we are given a description “Barren, silent, godless” and that they don’t what year it even is. I wonder what caused the apocalypse in this world, what series of events led the world to so terrible. We are also told that they are heading south, to what. What do they hope to find? I’m also curious about the boy's age, I’m curious if all the boys known is this apocalyptic world.
On page 5 at the end of the second paragraph and throughout the book there are no quotation marks. Maybe not including quotation marks in his text to leave it bare such as of his novel setting. However, I found it confusing it may be an artistic choice, but I’ve had to reread lines to make sure because I didn't who was speaking and
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It’s interesting to refer to nature as alien. These things that are a natural part of our world, but considered foreign to our characters. The juxtaposition of being alien on Earth may be because that this expo lactic world is not how the world used to be but rather it something unfamiliar. The world once was much different and the man remembers those times.
248 “ I will not send you into the darkness alone.” This line by the father shows that if he loses his boy that he will go with him (die with him). It’s very depressing we see that the child is very sick and usually if you’re this sick in a world like this you will die. However, he makes a miraculous recovery; I guess this was to let the reader think that the boy was going to die. We also get heartfelt moments of the father taking care of his son, even though the father is also not well at all.
On page 258 the man and the boy catch up to a man who's taken all their belongings and the man makes him return all plus what whatever the man was wearing essentially taking everything this stranger has. “ nude and slate like creature” is how stranger is left, the way he is described is dehumanizing. The boy understands that the stranger was acting only in fear of his own life and that everyone is just trying to make it in this
The first two lines of the poem set the mood of fear and gloom which is constant throughout the remainder of the poem. The word choice of "black" to describe the speaker's face can convey several messages (502). The most obvious meaning ...
This passage describes the power of storytelling to create realities. The father tells his son "tales" about life before the catastrophe which has rendered the earth a wasteland to its survivors. However, to the son, these tales are hard to believe because they are so unlike the current reality. The father, having experienced the pre-apocalyptic world, is thus alien to the son, who knows only life after the disaster.
Throughout the novel the feelings the man has for his son are sacred; the man makes great sacrifices for his son to continue to live and have a future in a world that has been devastated and stripped of all humanity. The boy is the only source of light for
2. You should use quotes throughout your paper and not just in the beginning. Your last few paragraphs do not have any support from the novel itself.
The story, The Road, begins with an unnamed man and boy in the woods. The story is set in a “post-apocalyptic world,” with the date, time and location unknown. “McCarthy himself imagines the disaster to be a meteor strike, although he claims that "his money is on humans destroying each other before an environmental catastrophe sets in (Cooper);” others say they see the setting as a post nuclear war setting. Throughout the reading, the reader can assume that the story takes place in the United States because the man mentions following the “state roads.” We first see the man and boy in the woods, it is morning time and the man has just risen from his sleep. He checks on the boy and then walks to the road to get his bearings. He thinks it is October but is unsure because he has not kept a calendar in a long time, indicating that the area has been desolate for an extended amount of time. They plan to move South, hoping that the climate will provide for less harsh winters. When he goes back to camp, the boy wakes up and they have breakfast. After they eat, they pack up all their belongings and head along the road. They push a cart with supplies and carry a knapsack with their essential belongings, should they need to abandon the cart and run for safety. They come across an abandoned gas station where the man finds old bottles of oil they can burn in their lamp and a phone where he tries to dial the number to his father’s house but there is no phone service any more. They continue their walk after gathering all they could from the station. They crest a hill and see all the ashen houses and billboards in the city below. They make camp for the night under a rock cliff after it starts to rain. The next morning they walk through the city...
Using quotes from the book would strengthen your paper. Quotes prove to the reader that you have a valid argument.
If you have a quote more than four lines long and indented, quotation marks are not needed. The indentation is enough to signal a quote.
2. Also when quoting you must always place in parentheses the name of the author and the page on which the quote can be found. This way your readers can look up the quotes for themselves.
It is made apparent to the audience that the world will soon cease to exist, but there is no closure as to why that is. The wife inquiries about that mystery, asking is it “a war?” “The hydrogen or atom bomb?” “Or germ warfare?” (Bradbury 2) in which the husband confirms it isn’t any of these things and that instead it should be viewed as “just the closing of a book” (Bradbury 2). It is interesting that a story about the end of the world, one whose writing is focused on small details, has the actual threat missing from the text. This is intentional, because it is a detail that simply doesn’t matter. It is not end that is a concern, but rather the realization of what matters when faced with it that is
By avoiding quotation marks, he avoids taking the liberty of claiming this as factual. He uses a similar tactic in “Writing an Elegy.” This is a poem about Spanish moss which is both used as a stereotype of the south but is also very prevalent in certain parts of the south, including New Orleans, where Laurentiis has spent a lot of time. In the poem, Laurentiis addresses one of the few tales that were created in order to explain the origin of this strange plant. This particular tale says that a Spanish conquistador bought a native woman to marry, but she was scared of him, so she ran into a tree. He tried to follow her, and when she jumped out of the tree into the river, he attempted to jump too, but his beard got stuck into the tree, which broke his neck and killing him. (Booth) Laurentiis writes, “If not for his lust, his sickness to chase, to claim her; if not for that Native woman’s quick intelligence, out-climbing…” (Laurentiis 27) This dialogue is from the perspective of the friends of the Spanish man who died. This use of italics rather than quotation marks is doing two things. It recognizes that this story is a fable, and not factual to begin with, but it also recognizes Laurentiis’ own addition into the legend. He continues to remind the audience of the lack of factual truth in the words people are saying through dialogue throughout his entire
The structure and language used is essential in depicting the effect that the need for survival has had upon both The Man and The Boy in The Road. The novel begins in media res, meaning in the middle of things. Because the plot isn’t typically panned out, the reader is left feeling similar to the characters: weary, wondering where the end is, and what is going to happen. McCarthy ensures the language is minimalistic throughout, illustrating the bleak nature of the post-apocalyptic setting and showing the detachment that the characters have from any sort of civilisation. Vivid imagery is important in The Road, to construct a portrait in the reader's mind that is filled with hopelessness, convincing us to accept that daily survival is the only practical option. He employs effective use of indirect discourse marker, so we feel as if we are in the man’s thought. The reader is provided with such intense descriptions of the bleak landscape to offer a feeling of truly seeing the need for survival both The Man and The Boy have. The reader feels no sense of closu...
In the Novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, survival becomes the biggest quest to life. The novel is set to be as a scene of isolation and banishment from people and places. The author uses the hidden woods as a set of isolation for the characters, in which creates the suspense of traveling to an unspecified destination near the shore. Cormac McCarthy creates a novel on the depth of an imaginative journey, which leads to a road of intensity and despair. The journey to move forward in an apocalyptic world transforms both of the main characters father and son tremendously as time progress. In particular, the boys’ isolation takes him from hope to torment, making him become fearful and imaginative. The images indicate that McCarthy’s post apocalyptic novel relies on images, particular verbal choices, and truthful evidence to how isolation affected the son emotionally and physically.
I also agreed with Ashoka with the statement of "deep" being a key word here in this poem. I say that because I believe using the word "deep" in both of these poems, is showing so much. For example, the boy 's father lead him "deep" into the words. In the context I believe deep is to show just how far the boy 's father mislead him into the woods and also in his life. "Deep" can also be used in the poem "The Little Lost Boy" and "The Little Boy Found" to symbolize the emotion in these poems. It is a "deep" subject, especially because it is a child and how he is being misguided by his own father and then left all alone. Another example of these I saw was in the seventh stanza when Blake says " The mire was deep, & the child did weep", the child is in deep mud, because of his setting and surroundings in the wood and is now crying. Another piece of symbolism I have found is that I believe that the boy represents the uncertainty and fear in all of us as humans. I believe this to be true because, the boy is an innocent child and is following what he believes to be his protector in life. As a child, I tended to always trust and believe exactly what my parents told me, but as soon as you do not have the guardian
This short story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. It is unclear to the readers how the world got to be this way. This story takes place four years after all this chaos began. The narrator does an excellent job setting the scene throughout the story using lots of details. It is revealed throughout the story that it takes place during
...e has become more peaceful and relaxed overnight. In this half quite a bit of light/colour imagery has been used, for example, “snowdrops”, “candles”, and “paler”. Along with these words, the fact that he says “I went up” makes the atmosphere heavenly and pure. Although dead the boy is portrayed as angelic and perfect, as there are no scars.