Chattahoochee River
Thursday, March 5, 2015
The Road
I find the McCarthy's writing style extremely interesting from the very beginning because it is so unique, and I don't recall ever reading a book where the author avoids using quotation mark. Another characteristic that is relatively unique about this book is its lack of chapters, and each paragraphs acts as a separation of The Man's thoughts. I also find the fact the author avoids giving the Man and the Boy names through out this section. In the beginning of the section, we get little glimpses of the Man's and the Boy's relationship, and their dynamic is really interesting to me because of the way that the boy has moments where he seems extremely mature, and others where he resembles a relatively young child. The moments when the Man remembers his wife are really emotional to me, because those are the few instances where this book has a real strong emotional focus on something instead of focusing on the bleakness of the two's future.
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I thought the same exact thing. And having no quotation marks made it hard to follow who was talking and saying what, since the auther never really said anything like, "and then he said..."
ReplyDeleteI find it frustrating that the characters don't have names but I think it makes it more interesting to read because you have to pay real close attention so you don't get lost on who is doing what. I also wonder how old the boy is too for him to handle this so well but then at other times just break down and complain like any other child. Then again, I think going through such struggles can raise your maturity level just because you know what has to be done to stay alive.
Kayla I also noticed that both the man and the boy remained unnamed. I believe the authors reason behind this is because the world in that both the man and he boy live in, their names aren't important. Whats important at the moment for them is their survival in this post apocalyptic world so I believe the author used this as a technique to emphasize that.
ReplyDeleteI totally understand what you mean when you refer to the two different images you get of the Boy/his maturity level. What I took from it is that the Boy is young (who knows how young, but young), but because of all of the adversity and peril he's faced pretty much his entire life, he is very mature. The world he lives in is not a hopeful or encouraging environment, however he maintains a level of compassion that we don't see as prominently in the Man, who seems to have developed a "hard shell" in response to this entirely new, much more horrific world.
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