Mccarthy Tell The Story Behind The Road Analysis

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Write about McCarthy’s methods of telling the story from page 111-131 By the time they come upon a once grand house, the boy and man are starving. There are suspicious items in the house, such as piles of blankets and clothes and shoes and a bell attached to a string, but the man these. He finds a door in the floor of a pantry, and breaks the lock. The boy becomes frightened and repeatedly asks if they can leave. In the basement, the man and boy find naked people who are being kept alive for others to eat. The man and boy flee just as the road agents return. They hide in the woods through the freezing night, the man feeling certain that this is the day when he's going to have to kill his son. But they survive the night and go undiscovered.…show more content…
After it then goes back into third person to build tension up and gets us to think about the characters such as what is happening to them and are they going to be ok.`they approached slowly’ shows tension building up as it changes the point of view so we understand how every character is feeling and the narrator is expressing how the son and father are feeling in this situation and then when it changes to the character we see it from their point of views which build the tension in the book up. It’s mostly in third person to express what is going on but then goes on to the man and son when there is a dialogue between

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