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Sunday, December 14, 2014
No Hope for the Hopeless
McCarthy ends his story in a very bleak way. Before reading the articles about Hemingway I didn't know he was illuding to a second piece of writing but after reading the excerpt it's clear what he was trying to say. McCarthy makes this comparison to Hemingway because he wants there to be a drastic difference between the way the stories end. For Hemingway the image of the trout in the river meant hope, it meant new life. It encourages the reader to look beyond their immediate surrounding...
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Nature
In the article there's a line; "Hemingway often voices this pessimism, but it is nowhere to be found when his protagonists are in the natural world" there's an interesting connection between masculinity and the connection with optimism and hope in nature. I'm reminded of The Swimmer where nothing brought Neddy more joy than thinking he was exploring un-mapped terrain and swimming this great river. His illusion came crashing down and it was reveled that it was all artificial...
Friday, December 5, 2014
Dinosaurs and Crows
The man describes a dream, on where he's visited by a being not of his own world. And when he wakes up he makes the realization that he is the alien. He's from a world that's nothing like the one he lives in now. His son knows nothing of what he grew up with other than the stories that he's told him. (McCarthy 154). That's an odd realization that the man makes but it echos throughout the rest of this portion of the story. When the man and his son are discussing crows, the boy asks him...
The Natural world of Hemingway and McCarthy
The parallels between Hemingway and
McCarthy never occurred to me but after reading the short story “The Big
Two-Hearted River.” I can see how closely both authors seek answers in
nature. Nick’s spirit is nurturing in watch
the trout and how they keep steady in the face of a current. The analogy of the
current could be the adversity of life. McCarthy’ father figure reminisces
about the pre-destruction of earth.
Hemingway has always been influenced by naturalism. Hemingway...
Monday, December 1, 2014
The Road pg 103-198
McCarthy's style in, The Road, is bare bones. He does not give big wordy descriptions of scenes or events that happen in the book because he is letting the reader get a feel for the sparse the world is and how father and son are using all their energy to survive. Father and son do not have the time to just sit and chat and even if they could there is not much to really talk about. On page 153 as the father wakes from a dream he thinks to himself, "Maybe he understood...
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Memory and The Road
One of the themes McCarthy seems to focus on heavily is that of memory. While McCarthy does not necessarily make the memory out to be the best thing, but he doesn't necessarily say "death to memory!" Instead, McCarthy seems to look at memory as being something which takes the characters minds off of survival. When you're reflecting on the past, it is easy to get lost in that, especially during times of extreme trauma. So for the father and the boy, they can't necessarily spare any time...
Friday, November 28, 2014
The Road
I think that the belief in God would be the man's insistence
that there were good people in the world. The man wanted his son to believe in
goodness and just maybe a higher being. The idea that a man and his son were
trapped in a purgatory world with hope for a better future. I know that the man
is dying but he still hopes for his son's future. The God is in the man's
selfless sacrifices for his son. I don't see the divinity in the son but rather
a salvation for mankind in the boy. The...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Okay
For starters I want to apologize for this being late, I'm just had my world turned upside down and it all still doesn't feel real but my husband came home from deployment this weekend and I lost track of time. I sincerely apologize but plan to get back on track and up to speed. But needless to say I've been on cloud nine and collecting my thoughts lately has been near to impossible. Lol This...
Monday, November 24, 2014
The Road: Ashen Dismay and Survival
The dystopian setting of The Road is quite alluring. How did the country fall? What gives father and son the will to continue on? The Road entices the reader to question their very being. The cause of the deteriorating world is never formally addressed although the decay is ever present. It makes one question their own reality. Could this happen to me? I’ve always found dystopian novels a little unsettling because many questions arise. If this happened to me, would I survive?...
Sunday, November 23, 2014
The Road Pages 1-102
*Just beforehand, I'd like to take a second to say Cormac McCarthy is brilliant, I highly recommend if you enjoy this story you check out Suttree!
The Road is quite an interesting novel. It's a disaster novel, set in a post apocalyptic world, following a father and his son, as they travel the empty roads in search of something better. The story is told in the third person, which I think adds a great deal. You tend to focus more on the father and the son, and McCarthy doesn't have to...
Saturday, November 22, 2014
The Road
I think Cormac McCarthy does not tell his readers the exact event that causes the destruction of the United States because the event does not really matter. It is the reaction of the characters to the event which is the point of the story. I assume it is a nuclear war on page 52 it says, "A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions." Also, "A dull rose glow in the windowglass." (52) It suggests a nuclear blast also the sun is blocked by clouds and...
Friday, November 21, 2014
The first part of The Road
The
Road is one of the bleakest novels I have ever read. I read the book Unbroken by Laura
Hillenbrand and it was rather dark but running through it there was hope and
ultimate survival against all odds. In The
Road the theme was death all around and all living creatures reduced to
survival of the fittest or survival on an animalistic level: cannibalism. The
landscape is filled with ash and...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Prewriting
For my second Essay, I am choosing to write about Lorde’s poem “Power.” I feel her work is extremely profound especially with today’s current events. I am going to discuss the racial tensions occurring throughout the poem as well as society during the era in which it was written. I will also discuss the carelessness of the death of a young child still holding on to innocence and the relevance within Lorde’s era as well as our own.&nbs...
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Dystopian Parents
While reading The Road I started thinking about the differences between it and the popular genre of dystopian novels we're seeing right now. Books like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Divergent, and even The Giver (a slightly older book but a recent film) are all either lacking supportive and present parents or are completely devoid of parents/adults. It strikes me as interesting considering all the recent novels are in the Young Adult genre, whereas The Road is considered...
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