tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4375071335679640824.post8451340241164840693..comments2023-10-11T06:26:01.345-07:00Comments on American Literature After 1945 Fall 2014: OkayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15859084138187073439noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4375071335679640824.post-68500565942909598492014-12-14T16:17:58.405-08:002014-12-14T16:17:58.405-08:00Thank you, it was a pretty amazing day. I am grate...Thank you, it was a pretty amazing day. I am grateful to have him home. He's having a nice time on leave but since I could only stay for a week because I had to come back for finals he's looking forward to coming to STL to get me. <br /><br />I think grammar can mean so much to a story and I think that McCarthy found a way to transform a story about the apocalypse into something amazing about the relationship between a father and his son and the relation to the world after it comes to a time of absolute crisis. It's heartbreaking to see them with so little of anything, it's hard to read their story about a child being raised in a world like this. Who knows maybe the punctuation means something to do with the childs lack of formal education. But what McCarthy makes clear is that the tiny details don't matter. He doesn't spend pages and pages talking about the surrounding, instead he really focuses on what's happening to the father and son and I think that really makes this story stand out because it's not trying to shock the reader. It's not necessarily trying to entertain, beyond the basic joy of reading, but more it's trying to enlighten and cause the reader to really think. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12222136218723353667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4375071335679640824.post-78571900480289472622014-12-03T12:55:13.286-08:002014-12-03T12:55:13.286-08:00Kayla,
Congrats, and I LOVE the pictures! You (or...Kayla,<br />Congrats, and I LOVE the pictures! You (or the photographer) should submit the second image to Sycamore (our lit. magazine). It's awesome!<br />How is your husband doing?<br /><br />I agree with your interpretation of the apostrophe use. In wasn't and hadn't, it is pretty easy to figure out the meaning without the apostrophe, but in there'd it would be harder and might distract. I feel like McCarthy varies between that pared down style and a much more lyrical, formal style in places that really adds another layer to the novel. McCarthy seems very intent on resisting the apocalypse tropes that result in what Badrillard refers to as "disaster porn."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15859084138187073439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4375071335679640824.post-67136709834008242502014-11-28T14:11:22.563-08:002014-11-28T14:11:22.563-08:00I think you have a good point that the boy does no...I think you have a good point that the boy does not ask questions but just accepts the reality of their life. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13961819377627868572noreply@blogger.com