Examples Of Justice In The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

The Balance of Justice Despite what the dictionary says, there are many definitions of the word justice based on the world’s opinions. The opinions, then depend on the situation at hand. There is the discussion of justice for the person who has been hurt, for the person who has conceived a crime, and even for those who have committed an accident. In the end, justice is intended to establish an equal solution for any circumstance. However, there will be times where injustice is present in the justice system. A person’s skin color can largely affect the impression of an individual. During the 1930’s, a group of 9 black men were falsely accused of raping two white women. The people who were all involved in the alleged crime had to attend a court case. The courtroom was, however, filled with an all white jury. Before the court case was initiated, the white jury already had a
In the book, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a stranger steals all the items belonging to the father and the son to survive the harsh world. Until they found the man who stole their property, the father and son had potentially lost everything they had scavenged for. When they find the man, the father begins to threaten the stranger with a pistol. As a punishment the father makes the man strip of his own belongings and forces him to place them in their cart of possessions. The father left the stranger there “standing...raw and naked, filthy, starving” (257). These actions of the father are seen as malicious to the boy because he began to show sympathy towards the stranger who was “just hungry, Papa. He’s going to die.” (259). The father’s actions are unreasonable because the man had only wanted to live longer. The father is extremely angry and decides to act out against the stranger. This is a representation of the eighth amendment because the father gives the stranger a cruel and unusual