Cormac McCarthy *revised*

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is one of the most controversial, yet overly-popular written books. It has a broad population of readers, who either love the book or have alot to say about it.

As for me, the parts of the book that i have read has definitely kept me interested. The relationship between the father and the son is very heart touching and a sensitive situation. The father has one of the most important and hardest jobs anyone could ever have; being a father in such drastic terms. He tries to keep surving, while also continue to teach his son about life and allow him enjoy some aspects of it: whether it may be letting him taste the wonderous taste of pop or allowing his son to go swimming. But it seems to me, that they both live their days in fear of dying. Every waken moment, the son is asking when are they going to die, or are they going to die soon. As a father, the man can only install hope inside his son's heart, and replies by saying, "i dont know. but not anytime soon."

A NewYork Times review on the book states the following:

"McCarthy has said that death is the major issue in the world and that writers who don’t address it are not serious. Death reaches very near totality in this novel. Billions of people have died, all animal and plant life, the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea are dead: “At the tide line a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as eye could see like an isocline of death.” Forest fires are still being ignited (by lightning? other fires?) after what seems to be a decade since that early morning — 1:17 a.m., no day, month or year specified — when the sky opened with “a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions.” The survivors (not many) of the barbaric wars that followed the event wear masks against the perpetual cloud of soot in the air. Bloodcults are consuming one another. Cannibalism became a major enterprise after the food gave out. Deranged chanting became the music of the new age."

The wife, which isnt talked about often, was one of those people who used death has her scape-goat. She would rather be dead than have to endure such horrible circumstances and even watch her son live in such an unfitt enviroment. But death's main appereance in this story appears as protection. If something were to happen, ther are bullets to kills off the father and his son, not those who are coming after them. This is very interesting to me.

But as i continue to read, thing wills probably be more clear for. Think ill go open up my book now :)