At first, I thought about simply revamping an old presentation on Faulkner's A Rose For Emily. Most of that criticism was centered on the author and the history going on at the time...this project I created a few semesters ago does not meet the same requirements as the current assignment. Also, my interests have changed. I read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy this past summer and was blown away.
Just in case you've been in a closet for the past few years, let me enlighten you. "The Road" is set in post-apocolyptic times. The only two consistently present characters are the father and son...however, a few other characters arive, along with a mother figure who appears in flashbacks. Well, the only thing keeping this pair alive is their hope of reaching the coast. The father and son continue to depend on the only two life lines they have: eachother and THE ROAD.
Furthermore, I could not do the book better justice than this abstract prefacing an article by Thomas Schaub titled "SECULAR SCRIPTURE AND CORMAC MCCARTHY'S THE ROAD."
The article explores the allegorical representation of spiritual survival in Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road." According to the author, the novel demonstrated the philosophical problem of belief from the inside and that it is unique in locating the basis for meaning in the love demonstrated by the father for his son. It notes the consideration of the novel as the core of all fiction for it brings the reader to any aspect of literature to the sense of fiction, as the epic of the creature, the man's interpretation of his own life as a quest.
A Major Motion picture also hit theaters last year:
Out.
No comments:
Post a Comment