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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...
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