The Road

When reading Cormac McCarthys excellent The Road, I couldnt help being struck by the contrasts between the two characters. The young male child is innocent, hopeful, accepting, trusting, and interminably looks for the goodness in other plenty and strives to help the less(prenominal) well-off despite his own desperate circumstances. His father, on the other hand, is world-wise and world-weary, suspicious, watch over and fearful even as he tries to ensure a face of optimism to his son on their journey on the perpetual road and toward an indeterminate future. The son has never cognize whatever world other than the bleak wasteland through which they traverse, and accepts things as they are. His father, endlessly remembering what things were like before, and being sorely certain of what mankind is capable of in bringing close to this terrible situation, sees instead the grim reality of their situation. Yet he repeatedly tells his son that they must reach the ocean (de spite having no idea what awaits them there) and that somewhere there are good flock to be found and to make a new living with. He is loving, patient and extremely protective of his son, qualities which, in property his boy from harm, he is unable to extend to other people they encounter.

He turns others off, denying food and fire, taking away one mans habit and shoes, and lesion a nonher with a shot from a glare gun. He will do anything to keep his son unspoilt; help others means putting themselves at risk. But not all in all of the fathers acts are of wary self-preservation. He educates the boy with day-to-day lessons and tries to tickle pink! their journey with stories about the gray-haired days. But the lessons gleam away as they move down the road, the abstractions of learning perhaps worthy irrelelvant when one is struggling to simply survive, and the boy discounts the old stories, expression they arent true, couldnt possibly be true (sunsets and animals and lush forests? out of the brain!) since the ravaged landscape offers no evidence that these things...If you want to outfox a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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