The Road: By cormac mccarthy
Introduction:
This is a website made to study and analyse Cormac McCarthy's novel, The road. Which is a book about a father and son traveling on foot through the roads of a post-apocalyptic universe. The book is very sad, but very well written. It is a national bestseller, and a pulitzer prize winner. This book is fairly well known, and has now been made into a major motion picture. Below are the questions that are most critical to my study of McCarthy's story.
Essential Questions:
1. To what extent should one keep to following there morals and being good ("carrying the fire") when there own life, and the lives of those around them are in danger?
2. To what extent should people let there love for an individual get in the way of there own survival?
3. To what extent can living in constant fear completely change ones morals and religious beliefs?
4. How is it that a split second of happiness, can keep a person from loosing all sanity, and hope in life?
5. To what extent can being around a child who is full of innocence, morals, and hope keep a person from loosing faith in humanity?
6. How much should one be able to do in order to survive, without crossing a line when it comes to humanity?
7. To what extent does human suffering change a person?
This is a website made to study and analyse Cormac McCarthy's novel, The road. Which is a book about a father and son traveling on foot through the roads of a post-apocalyptic universe. The book is very sad, but very well written. It is a national bestseller, and a pulitzer prize winner. This book is fairly well known, and has now been made into a major motion picture. Below are the questions that are most critical to my study of McCarthy's story.
Essential Questions:
1. To what extent should one keep to following there morals and being good ("carrying the fire") when there own life, and the lives of those around them are in danger?
2. To what extent should people let there love for an individual get in the way of there own survival?
3. To what extent can living in constant fear completely change ones morals and religious beliefs?
4. How is it that a split second of happiness, can keep a person from loosing all sanity, and hope in life?
5. To what extent can being around a child who is full of innocence, morals, and hope keep a person from loosing faith in humanity?
6. How much should one be able to do in order to survive, without crossing a line when it comes to humanity?
7. To what extent does human suffering change a person?
Cormac McCarthy: author of The Road