Category: The Road

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now. A utopia is not a state but rather a state of mind. Composers of utopian and dystopian literature offer an inherent political and…

‘Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration; it is inherent in the very texture of human life (Nair 1). Symbolism has become an essential component of most literary works and in The Road, McCarthy uses symbols very frequently and subtly. The novel The Road was written by Cormac McCarthy. The main characters in…

Cormac McCarthys The Road highlights the journey of a father and son traveling by foot through a burned America. The father is equipped with a single pistol and a shopping cart for what little belongings they can bring along as they move from place to place. They head South and then West throughout the story…

In the book The Road the author uses different themes to describe the journey of both the father and son. But one theme that keeps reoccurring is hope. It may be neither about losing or gaining hope. Throughout the dark events that happen in which it seems like an end of a road, but in…

The Road is a novel and was written in 2006 by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book is about a father and his son trying to survive an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed almost everything on planet Earth. The father is doing what he can to keep his son alive, because he could be the…

The road is a novel written by Cormac McCarthy which was published on September 26th, 2006. The book was also adapted to a movie in 2009. Cormac McCarty is an American novelist who were born on July 20th, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, US. Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 pulitzer price and the James Tait…

Question: What kind of techniques or events does the author use to show the parental love of the man to the boy? Love contains powerful and affirmative mental states, from the most majestic romance, the intimate interpersonal affection and to the most unsophisticated felicity, like parental love. In The Road, the man and the boy…