Okay, let start off easy. The end of the book could be considered a huge let down to some, other could see it as unfinished, and other still could see it as a climax to the novel that brought it to a decisive finish. What do you think of the e
nd of The Road? Is the death of the father necessary to illustrate the point of the cruel society they find themselves in? If so why? If not how would you have changed the ending? Next what was your opinion of the story as a whole, including the bizarre diction of McCarthy( included examples). Finally what is the significance of the little boy leaving his fathers body and going off with total strangers? How does this also help to show the difference between their world and ours? This is our last post so don't end it with a weak one. Since it's all over now never mind posting to this one great post though James.
nd of The Road? Is the death of the father necessary to illustrate the point of the cruel society they find themselves in? If so why? If not how would you have changed the ending? Next what was your opinion of the story as a whole, including the bizarre diction of McCarthy( included examples). Finally what is the significance of the little boy leaving his fathers body and going off with total strangers? How does this also help to show the difference between their world and ours? This is our last post so don't end it with a weak one. Since it's all over now never mind posting to this one great post though James.
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I thought that the end of this novel was a great one. There was a lot happening in the last sixty pages which kept adding onto the ending. The death of the father near the end does give a good representation of the cruel world they were living in. Their entire journey on the road was full of life threatening events and almost everybody they came across were threats to either the father or the son. I thought that the overall plot of this novel was a good one. It was a bit hard to start off reading the novel as you had no clue what happened and what was going on but as I progressed through it became more and more interesting. The one aspect of this novel that I hated was McCarthy's diction and the dialogue between characters. At times there would be three or more people talking and he wouldn’t describe who was talking to who which made it a bit hard to follow along. A good example of this would be on page 170 where they came across an old man and the boy, the father, and the man were all talking at once.
When the father died towards the end of the novel the boy asked the man that approached him if he was carrying the fire. The father also talked to the boy earlier before he died saying that luck will come across him again which it did. Fortunately the stranger the boy came across were not cannibals and were one of the good guys. The boy decided to keep on going instead of staying with his father and dying. In a world like ours we would probably not go off with total strangers as there are others way to move about. In a world where food is very limited and people are killing each other for food than there’s not much you could do. If the boy did not go with the strangers that approached him then he would have most likely died because of the harsh conditions and encounters he would be facing later on. In our world we have very little trust in strangers when your life is on the line but in a world as seen in The Road there isn’t much of a choice but to go with them.
James Kellogg
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