Brief Summary Of The Book 'The Road' By Cormac Mccarthy
The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a survival book dealing with a lot of struggle that gave the characters a choice to either give up or to keep moving Therefore, the setting in this book is on a long, ash covered road, by which the world had been burned by a fire of an untold cause. The main characters are a man and his young son traveling together trying to travel South to survive without being the “bad guys”. In any case, they trusted no one but themselves, they are always on the run because resting is dangerous and they have to follow the road to the South. The man always tells his son they “carry the fire” by which he means that they are carrying hope for the world on their shoulders. The Road gives examples of assimilation several times throughout the story. Consequently, they have to adjust and adapt to the burned world around them with small amounts of supplies. In addition, the man and his boy have to search vacant stores and houses and hunt for any source of protein or calories they can get in their system to keep them alive. The man and the boy have to adjust to sleep for a little amount of time and be on the move as much as possible. Often, they had to take any types of materials for clothing or to put on their feet to keep them dry and to keep them from getting sick. …show more content…
It never really said how the fires had started or who made them happen because no one saw it coming. Although, the man and boy had nothing and they had to fight for survival they never gave up and everything that came their way they adapted their ways to make it go smoothly. They did everything they could to keep each other alive and kept themselves from danger, even though problems came along their way to the South. All in all, they carried the fire, but they never once gave up on themselves or each
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a survival book dealing with a lot of struggle that gave the characters a choice to either give up or to keep moving Therefore, the setting in this book is on a long, ash covered road, by which the world had been burned by a fire of an untold cause. The main characters are a man and his young son traveling together trying to travel South to survive without being the “bad guys”. In any case, they trusted no one but themselves, they are always on the run because resting is dangerous and they have to follow the road to the South. The man always tells his son they “carry the fire” by which he means that they are carrying hope for the world on their shoulders. The Road gives examples of assimilation several times throughout the story. Consequently, they have to adjust and adapt to the burned world around them with small amounts of supplies. In addition, the man and his boy have to search vacant stores and houses and hunt for any source of protein or calories they can get in their system to keep them alive. The man and the boy have to adjust to sleep for a little amount of time and be on the move as much as possible. Often, they had to take any types of materials for clothing or to put on their feet to keep them dry and to keep them from getting sick. …show more content…
It never really said how the fires had started or who made them happen because no one saw it coming. Although, the man and boy had nothing and they had to fight for survival they never gave up and everything that came their way they adapted their ways to make it go smoothly. They did everything they could to keep each other alive and kept themselves from danger, even though problems came along their way to the South. All in all, they carried the fire, but they never once gave up on themselves or each