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The Road The Road written by Cormack McCarthy is a very suspenseful and post apocalyptic novel about a father and son and how they must trek through a long and dangerous journey along a road. The protagonists are the father and the son and the antagonists are the street thugs that roam the roads and highways in the eastern seaboard. Most life has been wiped out by some catastrophic storm or event that leveled cities and countries. Life has been destroyed animals and plants are all gone. Wherever the boy and the man go they meet miles of little shelter and little food, houses have no roofs and most of the cities tall buildings are rotting away from the rain and wind. The author also tells the reader that there are no more natural cycle of seasons, and for most days it’s either winter or cloudy which really effect the man and boy. The father and son carry a single gun with only three bullets from protection against those who hunt and try and kill them or any other survivors for food. The novel opens with a father and son sleeping outside in the cold. The father wakes up from a dream of him and his child in a cave, facing a huge, and creature that eventually runs away into the dark. At dawn, the father and son remain nameless throughout the novel. The boy awakes from his sleep and they set off on their journey, following a road through the countryside. The author lets us know that there is always a sense of danger. They discover an old, gas station they camp at the gas station for the night. Then the father tells the boy that they are heading south because the weather will be much warmer. The boy and his father travel south for days and weeks with not much break during the long journey. Along the road, they scavenge for blankets, canned food, and other useful goods from abandoned houses, grocery stores, barns, and sheds. The father at one point finds a can of Coca-Cola and gives it to the boy to try, who has never tasted a soft drink. They pass the house where the father grew up, and they walk through however, the son is very afraid of being there. The story unfortunately ends there and for the most part the author leaves you hanging and makes you imagine up the story in the end. The Road is perhaps the most chilling story of our time. The post-apocalyptic setting really sets up on the fear of natural disaster and what humans can do to each other when we are at the brink of destruction. This was a very compelling novel and McCarthy does a very good job of telling the story of a father and son and how they really bond and work together as a team against all odds.

2022-10-03 11:25