the road

“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy

“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy is a book about the post apocalypse period. This is after the world is destroyed by the apocalypse period and all that remains in tatters of the world. People have lost their humanity and have turned into cannibals. There are two characters that are clinging to their humanity. These are the man and the boy; they are also father and son. Through the use of vivid imagery and symbolism, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, depicts Earth as a desolate world. However, most overlooked is the fact that after a catastrophic event in which humans lose their social rules and standards, it does not take long to return to a primitive state. The world has transformed in a primitive world which has no electricity and water. All human basic needs are hard to find and the world is plunged into darkness. This makes life difficult and people are struggling to survive.

The novel starts with a man who is accompanied by a boy, and they are in the woods. They are trying to find their way out of the woods. The setting of the story is in a manner that it is in a post-apocalyptic world. This is like the end of the world and basic human needs are not easy to find. The time and location of the boy and the man are is not named by the author.

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This also puts the readers in darkens because they do not know the location of the two people. The readers are also put in a state that is apocalyptic “He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world” (Cormac 16). The readers can be placed in a position of guessing, by the use of the man’s words. This is when the boy is told by the man that they are walking in the state roads. This can be assumed ...

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... the man has caught a very bad cough, and he is fighting it very hard. He knows that when he gives in to the cough he will not have enough energy to survive the long and endless journey. The cough is very serious and when he coughs blood is sprayed from his mouth to the white snow. This is not a good sign to the boy who accompanies him and believes that the only person he has is the man.

On their journey, they come across cities and towns which are meager shells .All that remains are remnants of the old world which is now a new world to the man and the boy. The remnants of the hotels and houses give the man a reminder of the old world he had lived which was peaceful and had all the supplies a person needs in order

Work Cited

Cormac, McCarthy. The Road. New York: Picador, 2010.Print

Penhall, Joe, and McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: A&C Black, 2013.Print