The Road

Blog #2

          In the book, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the relationship the man has with his son is quite interesting.  The only thing that pushes the man to go forward with his decisions is his son. However, even though the man tries to do everything within his power to protect his son, he still thinks whether he would be able to kill his son. This is mostly due to the fact that he does not want his son to suffer through the torture of cannibals, starvation, or sickness. Its quite terrifying imagining how to kill someone, especially if that someone is a relative. Though this does go over the fact of "putting the dog down." Which again makes you finally understand why the man has the revolver in the first place. However, the gun itself has only two shells, and during the story the man uses one. So now they have one bullet. What the man tells the boy is to use it not on the cannibals but himself, since the man shows that he does not have the power to kill his son.

           

The Road - Blog #1

          In the novel The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, the story talks about the journey of a father and son over a period of several months who travel across the apocalyptic landscape of America which the father describes to be gray and covered in ash. The title in itself provides a literal meaning to the story since its told in the novel that the boy and the father are walking around a road with a shopping cart that holds their supplies and belongings. Though the title is literal it holds a greater meaning. To mean the title represents challenges that have to be faced with a extreme focus and concentration. To add on if looked at from at a straight angle it seems to go on forever seeming to never end. Even though the road is seen as challenging the Father pushes on not for himself but for his son which can be seen as cliche. I feel as if McCarthy emphasizes this since in this broken world the Father sees his son as the only thing that seems to still be in peace, pure and not broken by this world covered in ash.