Cormac Mccarthy The Road
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Onnito Labonno!
Mr. Brian Harriman!
ENG4U1-03!
11 April 2014!
Divergent Aftermaths of Unvaried State of Affairs!
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According to the Dalai Lama “we can live without religion and meditation, but we
cannot survive without human affection.” This statement is most closely related to the novel “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, where a father and son walk across a postapocalyptic Earth where the comfort of religion is absent, in search for a tomorrow that looks like yesterday rather than today. They are desolate for a new day and an array of a hope. So is Camille Preaker, the narrator and protagonist of “Sharp Objects”, a stomach-wrenching account of feminine malevolence, by Gillian Flynn. She is sent back to her hometown, the …show more content…
The conversation “If they find us they’ll kill us, wont they Papa. … Shh. Yes. Yes they will” between the father and
Labonno son provide readers with the essence of danger as well as the an illustration of the caring relationship the two share (McCarthy, 115). They had to encounter things such as
"A corpse in a doorway dried to leather" (McCarthy, 12) and what this only did was intensify their relationship further. The father "held the pistol at his waist and held the boy by the hand." (McCarthy, 131) depicting the war-like situation they were in. A warlike scenario is created in Preaker’s mother’s home, where it takes on a figurative as well as literal facets. However, the distress yields completely different outcomes than the one depicted in “The Road.”!
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Flynn exhibits a chain reaction of violence, caught up in a vicious cycle of
infectious women. Camille’s mother, Adora, states explicitly that "You remind me of my mother, Joya. Cold and distant and so, so smug. My mother never loved me. … I won’t love you… you were punishing me for being born.” (Flynn, 148-9). Instead of giving her child what she herself never got, she turns on the children and creates a vicious cycle
Onnito Labonno!
Mr. Brian Harriman!
ENG4U1-03!
11 April 2014!
Divergent Aftermaths of Unvaried State of Affairs!
!
According to the Dalai Lama “we can live without religion and meditation, but we
cannot survive without human affection.” This statement is most closely related to the novel “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, where a father and son walk across a postapocalyptic Earth where the comfort of religion is absent, in search for a tomorrow that looks like yesterday rather than today. They are desolate for a new day and an array of a hope. So is Camille Preaker, the narrator and protagonist of “Sharp Objects”, a stomach-wrenching account of feminine malevolence, by Gillian Flynn. She is sent back to her hometown, the …show more content…
The conversation “If they find us they’ll kill us, wont they Papa. … Shh. Yes. Yes they will” between the father and
Labonno son provide readers with the essence of danger as well as the an illustration of the caring relationship the two share (McCarthy, 115). They had to encounter things such as
"A corpse in a doorway dried to leather" (McCarthy, 12) and what this only did was intensify their relationship further. The father "held the pistol at his waist and held the boy by the hand." (McCarthy, 131) depicting the war-like situation they were in. A warlike scenario is created in Preaker’s mother’s home, where it takes on a figurative as well as literal facets. However, the distress yields completely different outcomes than the one depicted in “The Road.”!
!
Flynn exhibits a chain reaction of violence, caught up in a vicious cycle of
infectious women. Camille’s mother, Adora, states explicitly that "You remind me of my mother, Joya. Cold and distant and so, so smug. My mother never loved me. … I won’t love you… you were punishing me for being born.” (Flynn, 148-9). Instead of giving her child what she herself never got, she turns on the children and creates a vicious cycle