Essays on The Road

Bike riding is one of the most popular ways to exercise around the world. While riding a bike may be a great way to stay healthy and have some fun there are some potential risks. One of the biggest known risks is gaining a head injury from falling from a bike without a helmet on. While head injuries from a fall may be well known there are other potential risks on the roadway that are not. With so many potential…...

Dante’s Inferno and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road are both similar in comparison of the themes of each book. There are many different themes in both stories but most of them all seem to connect. Dantes theme is a world that shows the worst fears of the olden day Catholic thoughts of Dante’s time. The Road shows a world of the darkest fears for American thoughts such as the apocalypse. Although both authors have extremely different settings, era and story, both…...

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is a novel that supports a Darwinist survival ethic and adherence to natural laws. McCarthy portrays the romantic nostalgia the anonymous man has for nature and the pre-apocalyptic but makes it clear that such idealization of a dead world is perilous in the naturalistic context of the novel. Naturalistic characteristics such as discussion of taboo topics, animal imagery, a prevailing mood of pessimistic determinism, Darwinist necessity, as well as the detached method of narration all…...

Throughout The Road, Corm McCarthy draws a very heavy line in the sand between giving up and persevering. Very often, this line in the sand adheres to strict gender lines: while women are shown to "give up" in one form or another, the father and son who struggle down the post-Apocalyptic road tell themselves, "This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up". After closer reading of the text, reveals that "not giving up" is…...