...Response to “The Road” In our class for our final, we watched the Movie “The Road” after reading the novel in class. Most of the times a film version of a book is either a hit or miss with the audience. A lot of times readers think the film spoils the image they had created in their mind while reading, but other times the film will exceed your expectations and be very good. In this essay I will explain whether or not I liked the film, what parts I thought were very similar to the book, and which parts helped me understand the story more clearly. First of all, I liked the film version of “The Road” a lot better than I liked the novel. The film was much easier to follow. While reading the book, I found it hard to follow along because of the unique writing style that McCarthy used. This style made it hard for me to focus, and made me become easily distracted. The film version, however, was much better. It was filmed in a traditional manner, which made it much easier to follow along. The main difference I saw was the language usage. In the novel, the man and the boy talked in weird, abrupt sentences. This was one of the main reasons it was hard to follow. In the film, they spoke in more normal English, and that made it easier to follow along, and kept my attention better than the book did. The film also did a very good job of showing the action sequences. While the film could have been filmed in a boring manner, they did a good job of bringing the story to life and producing...
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...The Road A little information about the author. Cormac McCarthy was born in 1933. He is an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Throughout his career he has written ten novels in different genres. One of the most prominent genres in his literary work is post apocalypse. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. Some of his novels have been made into movies, such as; The Road, No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses. Short plot summary The Road is a book about a journey of a father and a son through a post-apocalyptic landscape. The story is set a few years after an unspecified apocalypse which has destroyed civilization and most life on the Earth. Many of the human survivors have resorted to cannibalism and thus gruesome and immoral actions take place. Throughout the whole book we are not told the protagonists’ names, they are referred to as the man and the boy. The man and the boy realize that they cannot survive another winter where they are; therefore the father decides to take the boy south, to the sea. Throughout the story the man and the boy meet a few people. The first people they run into are cannibals and they get away just in time. Other than that they almost run into other dangerous people and cannibals, fortunately they always hide and get away. The only person they meet who does not try to kill or rob them is an old man who is also traveling on the road. The father is often coughing and spitting out blood, but despite being on the brink...
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...Adam of the road. This is the account of an eleven year old boy who travels the road of medieval england, visiting town and encountering a variety of different people for whom the road any road is not simply a clear strip of terrain that makes travel easier for them it is a central part of their way of life. Adams father roger a minstrel in the thirteenth century england talks to him about the road “it brings all kinds of people and all parts of england together and it is home to a minstrel even though he may happen to be sleeping in a castle.” adam often shared the road with his father since his mother's death and being able to feel at home there keeps him from despair when everything seems to go wrong. accidentally separated from his father...
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...Sarah K. McAfee May 8, 2008 English 151-15 The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, tells a quick story about a lone traveler who arrives at the end of a path leading to a fork road. Confused about which road to take, the traveler speaks figuratively about how each path looks and in the end decides to take the path he calls “less traveled by” (line 19). Each person in life comes across crossroads where he or she has to choose which path leads to a better future. The reader can take what Frost wrote and interpret that this poem represents that decision that we eventually have to make. One of the major themes of this poem is “life’s decisions” because the author creates a scenario where people have to make a decision of which road to take in life. The poem’s theme is “life’s decisions” because in the poem the traveler arrives at a fork in the road and has to choose the path to take to get to his destination. In life, we also have to make that decision. This could be Frost’s interpretation of someone who is approaching this kind of scenario . The first stanza of the poem states: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth” –Robert Frost This stanza is describing the thinking process of the person who has to make his or her decision on which path to take. The person is trying to figure out how far each path will go but...
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...Danne Hill Prof. Maureen Garcia College Writing II 1 October 2013 The failures of a man A man full of obsessive dreams, Troy Maxson wanted to play in the professional baseball leagues, but his dreams were crushed due to ethnic discrimination situations. Troy challenged himself to see the achievement of his family, because he was rejected and couldn’t achieve his dreams. He claimed he didn’t want his children to go through what he went through, however, I think he wanted everyone to fail just like him. Troy looses the love of his life, his wife and children by building an obscure fence that is capable of keeping him away from his love ones. Because of the absence of parental affection and marriage steered him to make typical mistakes which cost his relationship with his wife rose, his sons Lyons and Cory, his brother Gabriel and best friend bono. Troy comes from a hard upbringing; all he received was physical, verbal, and mental abuse from his father. He lived a life motherless because his mom left him and his other siblings behind because of his father’s anger towards his mom. If there’s one thing troy learned from his father, it would have to be being a provider for his family. Because of his father’s malice behavior, Troy felt like responsibility and hard work was more important than loyalty and love. The only way Troy could become a man is by pursuing happiness in other things. Troy brought blasphemy of his failures into his family’s descent;...
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...Everyone in life will have to make a decision, some are easy and others are difficult. In the poem " The Road Not Taken” a person is presented with two roads, which symbolize two choices. In my life I'm am going to have to make an important decision. I have to decide what I want to go to school for and what school will be right for me. As my high school journey is coming to an end, I have many important choices that will affect me for the rest of my life. Everyone is presented with a choice; each individual has to make sure they are choosing the right one. Right now I am I the eleventh grade, which mean there are numerous important decisions I have to make in the future. I have to decide what career is right for me, which school is right for me, look for scholarships, study for the SAT, etc. I have to make sure I am making the right choices, because if not the consequences will be significant. For example, I would like to work in medicine...
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...The road not taken written by Robert Frost in 1916 is one of Frosts most well known poems. The road not taken consists of four stanzas each containing five lines and follows the rhyme scheme ABAAB. Frost used a variety of literary techniques, combined with simple language to make the road not taken so easy to relate to. the road not taken focuses on the narrator who reaches a fork in the road where he must decide on which path to take. the narrator hoses the path that he considers to be less traveled. this poem acts as an extended metaphor for difficult life decisions. From this poem the reader can interpret that frost is trying to convey the message that no matter which decision you make there is always a chance that it is the wrong one. From the last lines of the poem "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" the reader can also interpret that Frost is trying to say that making the right decision can have a huge impact on life. For the road not taken Frost was able to have a very large intended audience with the use of simple, easy to understand language and the relevance to everyday life. Frosts intended audience is anyone who has decisions so make but is indecisive about those decisions. The road not taken was written in 1916 shorty after Frost had moved back to America, Frost was 42 at the time. According to Emerson media (n.d.) it is believed that Frost wrote this poem due to regretting a decision made in his life. Frost uses past tense...
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...The Road not Taken is a poem about choice. It begins, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood, And looked down one as far as I could, To where it bent in the undergrowth;” Clearly the speaker is faced with a decision. He is out for a morning walk in the autumn woods when he comes to a fork in the road. He stops and contemplates which road to take, looking down one road as far as he can see. The second stanza reads, “Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there, Had worn them really about the same,” The speaker thinks long and hard about which road is the right one for him to take; expressing his indecisiveness and the importance of making the right choice for himself. He decides to take the road that looked as if it had been less traveled but, upon further evaluation he realizes that both roads are “about the same.” In the third stanza the speaker continues to speculate the differences between the two roads. He notices that both roads are covered with freshly fallen leaves and look as if they have not been traveled, “And both that morning equally lay, in leaves no step had trodden black.” He is sorry he cannot take both roads. Therefore, the speaker claims that he will come back and take the other road another day but, then he comes to the realization that he will never get to experience where the other...
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...The Road by Cormac McCarthy is about a man and his son walking the roads of America in post-apocalyptic times. The man and this son are faced with many issues. One of the main issues is that it is them two versus the evil of the world that remains. People eating people, death everywhere, and plenty of evil people to look out for. His main goal is to look out and care for his son. Throughout the book you can gather one main point from the events and character development. Even when America is burnt to the ground, people are still exiled. Throughout the novel, the man and the boy are alone walking the streets trying their best to avoid conflict. The boy doesn’t want there to be any violence whatsoever. They are trying to avoid people like...
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...Sherman McCoy is a Wall Street bond trader. He comes from a privileged background. He is well educated and lives a luxurious lifestyle. His privileged and luxurious lifestyle makes him greedy, self-centered, gives him a false sense of entitlement, and makes him think of people with less racial, social and economic privilege as below him. Despite these negative parts of his personality one can’t help but sympathise with him because he is deluded about the importance of his job, his place in society, and his view of himself as a master of the universe. When he picks up Maria and accidentally drives into the Bronx there is debris blocking the road. He is approached by two black men offering to help. He assumes they are trying to rob him and Maria...
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...Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” is about a boy and his father and their travels walking south in a post-apocalyptic world. On their journey they face and overcome many challenges together. The father is very loving of his son and would do anything to protect him even if that means killing him to save him torturing from the ravages that also walk the streets. The book often references grey skies or a soot covered ground, this suggests that the ground is covered in ash. McCarthy does not give the boy or man a name or their location but it is presumed that they are in the United states. McCarthy does not give a background explanation as to what happened to the world in which the book took place. Its to my belief that the earth was scorched by solar...
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...Fear and Foresight are Driven by Past Experiences By looking at the novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, one can see that fear and foresight affect the way one commits to resolving the fear by thinking the problem out, numbing the fear and the ability to make decisions, and instinctively acting upon those fears and the decisions made. Fear is driven by the experiences that humans have in their life times and foresight of what is to come makes one makes decisions based on those past experiences. Boyden develops on the idea that instincts can drive decisions and help one survive the future. The characters Elijah and Xavier both had very good instincts that saved their lives more than once. Xavier had better instincts than Elijah because...
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...This is for the Road to the revolution. Thomas Jefferson made theDeclaration of independence. It’s to persuade people to fight for our lives. To live how we live is easy. To live is an honor from the government. A dangerous time was a long time ago. People fought for glory and freedom. We won most battles but when we lose we will rise again.ahhhhhhhh, childrens screams were heard from the sounds of death during the French and Indian war. The French and the British traded with the Indians. The British were fighting over their territories for years. Ending the war was the treaty of Paris. Britain and the colonist began selling Indian land. And felt they should be independent. The mayflower compact declared the first self government it had power...
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...Gabrielle Van Tassell Professor Shadi Halabi Journey of Transformation 8 December 2016 Hope Where All Hope Is Lost The novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is a post-apocalyptic story that consists of underlying biblical references. McCarthy, with or without intention, incorporates themes and stories directly related to the Christian Bible. The boy and the man are living in a seemingly godless world trying to survive, and the novel describes this as “On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.” (McCarthy 32). McCarthy creates a post-apocalyptic world in which a man and a boy are attempting survive off of hope, and he uses biblical references to exude this hope on their journey....
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...In the novel The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy, a young boy and his father are in a post-apocalyptic society with very few people and available resources, and trying to survive. They travel along a main road, heading towards the coast, and encounter some benefits, yet many obstacles as well. In this novel, McCarthy illuminates the idea that when people are faced with death, it causes them to realize the small happy moments, because they become more prominent and enjoyable. In this scene from The Road, Papa and the Boy are preparing for their first night after the post-apocalyptic event; beginning to comprehend and adapt to their surroundings. Papa is trying to be protective of his son by staying up until the Boy falls asleep. The Boy is...
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