Monday, August 8, 2011

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Post 3, Q 6)

6. What other remarks might you have about the books? Questions? Observations? Reactions?

The book overall was a very intersting book , although something i didnt like was the fact that the book was more about details than conversation between the father and the son. Even though that changed when he meet the man on the road on page 281, I wish that more conversation with the son and father would've happened in the beginning. I knew that the father was going to die towards the end, like I just think it was destiny so in that same spot where his died he met the man. In the beginning of the book I thought that maybe the reason why McCarthy named his book "The Road" was because everytime he woke up all he can see was the road and that was only in the light. well anyways it was an alright book , and I enjoyed reading it.
Posted by Michelleyy at 7:19 PM

2 comments:

Lexy said...

I agree with the comment about the lack of communication between the father and son. Aside from the large events that happened in the story, the interactions they had were the most interesting things to me and probably what I'll remember the most from this particular book. I thought it was kind of unusual that McCarthy chose not to use quotations when the father and son conversed, and I wonder why this is. Maybe because all of those quotation marks would have really crowded up the text? Maybe because it makes the page look more like poetry. Or it could be his personal preference or for another reason entirely.

August 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM
Alessandra said...

I disagree that the book was more about details than conversation between father and son. In my opinion it seemed almost every word in the book was devoted to the relationship between the father and the son, and what it lacked in dialogue, (which considering the plot of the book there was a lot of) was expressed in other ways, like by how the father watched his son, and by the end the son would get embarrassed when he felt his father's eyes on him, an little details like that that for me gave away so much about their relationship and how they both were changing.

August 13, 2011 at 9:37 PM

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