He has not attended school, watched movies or read books, has not communicated with other children. All his life is confined and formed by his Mother for some period of time in the past and his Father. The book by Cormac McCarthy was awarded multiple literature tributes, in particular with the Pulitzer Prize.
THE MAN, who has known the real world before the apocalypses, who has felt the smell of flowers, heart the sounds of life and machines, has enjoyed all the comfort of up-to-day civilization, now conceives the road as a way of life for his only Son.
Man or Father strongly coughs with blood and feels himself from bad to worse every day of the journey. Father now protects the only matter of his own existence — his Boy. As a part of former happy life before the ash and cannibalism. THE BOY has never seen the beauty of the past world, but he represents the reflection of it — grew up with the memories and issues, what is good and wrong, claimed by his Father.
The Father and the Son just do their way forward, symbolizing the course of life in its simplicity. The Road has existed all the time, before, during and after mankind, without any specific meaning, except the existence itself. All the Boy knows is limited with the Road, poor and starving life within the shelters and constant walking ahead. Cormac McCarty does not detail the life of these two for the last months or years, past from the death of the Woman wife and mother.
How many shelters did they change, how many storages with goods did they found earlier, how many trucks did they use, carrying own belongings, how many simple meaningless dialogues did they performed, reflecting events. In fact, Father has lost all the light of life, giving all his best to the Boy, marching behind. Both in a book and in a movie, the readers and viewers are stunned with the scenes, depicting the Man , who is going to perform an inconceivable act — to shot his own Son with a gun.
He is ready to do this unthinkable thing in order not to allow cannibals to take the Boy, rape him, kill and then eat this child. Not because his own life will soon end with a painful and humiliating death, but as a loss of the only meaning of life — Son, have been pushing him forward all these years.
Although they manage to escape from such an end each and every time, these scenes of an inconceivable act are the plot climax of the book and movie adaptation. Cormac McCarthy does not play about the details of his apocalyptic world of the future. We tent to feel strong emotions with contrasts — of all comfort we have today on the one side and deadly images of ashes and dump on the other.
The novel is maybe the grimmest and dark version of the future for mankind. We found no colors apart from black and grey. Roads and trees, towns and fields are covered with grey ash. I grew up on genre: Westerns, sci-fi, fantasy novels, mysteries and spy thrillers—but especially on horror.
Horror's always gripped me in its bony fist. Lovecraft, and Poe. There's something about me that's drawn to darkness and to the theater of fear. I can't quite put a finger on why that is—it's the same reason some people like romance stories while others like action movies. But my greatest pleasure growing up was terrifying my sister by leaping out of closets with my hands made into claws, or scratching at her bedroom window.
She slept with the light on until she was I guess that was training ground for the novelist I've become. I've become so attuned to craft that it's sometimes difficult for me to get lost in a story.
When I grew up reading, the only thing that concerned me was the question of what happens next—and the pages turned so fast they made a breeze across my face. The Road , for the first time in a very long time, owned me emotionally in that same fashion. I was able to turn off my craft radar and be swept away. I felt true terror. The kind of terror that used it make me, when I was a kid, wrap the sheets around my face and breathe through a little blowhole in fear of the shadow that seemed at the edges of my room.
Cormac McCarthy, that dark sorcerer, makes me feel that way again. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. The Atlantic Crossword. Sign In Subscribe. Related Story. He started down the rough wooden steps. He ducked his head and then flicked the lighter and swung the flame out over the darkness like an offering.
Coldness and damp. An ungodly stench. He could see part of a stone wall. Clay floor. Director John Hillcoat did an amazing job ensuring McCarthy's vision came to fruition. There's a reason the movie was nominated for Best Cinematography. The entire minutes is a moving canvas with dark, bleak colors, devoid of vegetation but hauntingly beautiful at the same time.
Just by the title of this alone, you can understand how dark the world is in The Road. This scene was omitted from the film simply because of how twisted and horrible it was. In the book, the Father and Son hear a woman give birth to a newborn with two men helping her. In the morning, they find the newborn gutted and spit-roasted over a previously lit fire pit.
It's sights like these that were deemed too much but would have added an entirely new layer of horror to the movie adaption. Cormac McCarthy relies on dialogue for plot progression and character development, with the latter being the heart and soul of the book. The conversations between the Father and Son reveal the last glimpses of humanity, hence the recurring phrase between the two: carrying the fire inside of us. With this, director John Hillcoat did everything in his power to rely on the same mechanics McCarthy used, the result being a masterfully written script.
He's worked for fashion and lifestyle magazines both nationally and internationally, having been published numerous times. By Riley Keefe Published Feb 24, A man and his son are walking down a road, when the man decides to go into a gas station. He searches for food or tools but finds nothing useful. They walk on until they reach an abandoned house, where they decide to spend the night. When they cross a river, the narrator notices that all of the trees are bare and charred.
There are some billboards on fire next to a burned house. It starts to rain, so they cover their cart with a tarpaulin, hide under a rock ledge and huddle together for warmth. They make camp either by building tents or sleeping outdoors and have dinner prepared by burning wood.
The man and the boy try to sleep, but the boy is scared. He asks the man questions so he can fall asleep.
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