xshadowalkerx asked:
Hello, I have just finished the ROAD by Cormac McCarthy and I am heading towards some english projects. I need some help on the themes in the road with examples from the book on how it got developed. For example, the theme of altruism and HOPE.
Hello, I have just finished the ROAD by Cormac McCarthy and I am heading towards some english projects. I need some help on the themes in the road with examples from the book on how it got developed. For example, the theme of altruism and HOPE.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Hope is a wonderful theme for that book - and you are very smart to pick up on that. Most people do not see hope in it. Another theme that strikes me is abandonment. The first time they had to abandon a shopping cart with the toys in it, it broke my heart. Take that through to the ending and follow that subject (I don’t want to spoil the ending - but I am sure you know what i mean by abandonment at the end).
Then you might explore the subject of God in the story.
1) Is God in the story - if so where? If not - where did He go?
2) Did God do this - if so why?
3) If God didn’t do it - why did He allow it to happen?
That should have you thinking for a very long time. Pax-C