Chattahoochee River
Thursday, March 12, 2015
The Road Section 2
As I continued reading The Road, I noticed that so much emotion is put into so few words. The dialogue between the man and his son is very brief, yet there so much said between them. The son expresses his fears, and at other times how he wishes to die. The man also shows emotion in very few words such as when he saw the horrific sight of starving, naked, suffering human beings locked up in a basement, when he was looking for food for he and his son. The descriptions of setting and occurrences adds to the detail and emotion that cannot be put in dialogue.
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Cielo I agree. I feel that there is so much that should be said between the father and his son yet they only have brief conversations. Very neutral like to me. To be honest, I feel more feelings reading the story than reading the people's dialogues which is odd to me. Even when the boy says he wishes to die the father really only tells him to not say that, nothing else. It's as if they don't really need to express themselves as much because there's no point in showing so much emotion in the kind of world they are living in because it may make them too weak/vulnerable and thus susceptible to being raided by the bad guys or making fatal mistakes.
ReplyDeleteCielo, I hadn't thought about the brief dialogue as much as you had but now I see it. The briefness of there conversations seem to hold deeper meaning in which I bibe the reader must interpret it in his or her own way. There seems to be lack of emotion but yet when the man talks to the boy it shows how much her really cares in a non emotional way.
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