From the opening pages, McCarthy depicts the love and protection the father has for his son as they continue their impossible journey. McCarthy successfully depicts this relationship’s growth, while writing the same high standards for despair that he is most known for. Through the “dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him” (3). In just the first sentence, McCarthy manages to outline the entire story. In a world that God has abandoned, where the sun no longer shines through the ashes, the hope that the father and his son will survive ultimately gives the reader something to look forward to.
But he soldiers on, keeping a brave face for his son, perhaps believing that even if death awaits him there is the slightest chance of delivering his son to safety. It's an overwhelmingly improbable chance, but it's one he has to take. Keeping his son alive and away from harm has become the sole purpose in his life, a mission he gladly undertakes out of love and devotion for his only child. The Road says a lot about what it means to be a parent, about how you will instinctively do absolutely anything to protect your children, even at the expense of your own well-being, but also that you have to make your children aware of the realities and dangers of the world so they can one day fend for themselves. Protecting your children won't do them any good at all if they never learn to live on their own.
I was sad and depressed. It was one of the worst feelings leaving my girl and son behind, but deep down I knew it was right. I had to do what I had to do, and I couldn’t let anything get in the way of my goals for me or my family. I knew that everything would work out impeccably in the end, because everything happens for a reason. Will Demps also writes in his essay titled “Groupie Love” that he removes himself from temptation by surrounding himself with like minded players.
In the beginning chapters of the book, he is eager and looking forward to war. By the end of the book, wishes he had never been involved in the war. A dramatic change took place inside this man between his enlistment and discharge. I read this change to be an extreme form of growing up. Not the form of growing up that most young men these days go through, but the growing up a man does when he watches friends die.
Not only did he have hope go through with him to get out alive, but at the beginning of the book when he is separated from his family, he (along with his brother) used his hope and faith for his parents to be alive and for them to be reunited together again. You see, the problem with people these days is that we already
Adam has finally has his father and son moment with one of his children that he is grateful to express himself to his son Cal. By saying he trusts Cal he has gain even more love and forgiveness for not being with his children for many years. Plus, Adam is able to not be like his father but instead be the opposite with just one of his children. Cal – “He though sardonically of telling him about his mother, to see how he would handle I, but he withdrew the though quickly. He didn’t think Aron could handle it at all,” (Steinbeck 586).
Ethical Aspects in The Road Compared with Today's Society In the novel, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy writes about a father and son who try to survive after a tragic catastrophe. Although McCarthy never reveals the father or son's name, he brings them to life by vividly describing their actions. This description gives the reader the ability to relate to their actions and helps portray the father and son's relationship. Throughout the novel, the father and son build a strong relationship which is built around love, fear, and determination. McCarthy also uses the setting to help demonstrate the father and son's hopeless situation.
Khoa Tran 11/1/2010 Eng1102 Mr. McNamara Sonny Blue In this world that we live in there are lots of different characters throughout everybody. No one will be the same as the other even if they are grows up together or a long time best friend. In the story Sonny Blue by James Baldwin is a perfect example for two brothers that grow up together and into two completely different lives as they grow up into their own character. The author names the story Sonny Blue as he wants to point out the brother of his and the sad mood with unhappy thoughts of the author thinks about his brother life. The author writes this story about the two brothers that grow up together into two different ways of other.
“Do you want me to run that kite for you?” Amir was doing anything for Sohrab, he cared so much for this little boy and he finally realized that he had to live for someone else. When Sohrab tried committing suicide, Amir said “Now I was the one under the microscope, the one who had to prove my worthiness”. Sohrab wanted to die, and was not happy that Amir saved him, so he tried everything he could to show Amir would be an amazing father. 4) Amirs spirituality changes over the course of the novel. At the beginning, Baba dismisses religion out of Amir’s life.
He grows and learns and because of that is considered the protagonist. Perhaps, Creon would never have recognized his hubris without causing the deaths of three members of his family, thus not qualifying as a tragic hero. In fact, if he had not been prideful and ignorant in the first place, he would never have caused his family’s deaths and would have nothing to recognize. Ultimately, these two traits are key in turning him into the protagonist and hero. Though he suffers for his sins of pride and wishes death upon himself he will, “…in old age, learn to be wise”