Tag Archives: the road

Finding Beauty in the Desolate

By Tracie | Published: November 30, 2009
In the future, all plant life is dead, the sun no longer shines, there is constant rain and snow, it is cold and strangers are deadly. What keeps a person moving? What would keep you moving? These are the questions pondered in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road. Overall, the movie adaptation stays [...]
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Five Ways to Survive in a Dystopia

By Tracie | Published: November 11, 2009
dys·to·pi·a (dĭs-tō’pē-ə) n. An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror. My favorite genre of novels is filled with horror, death, ugliness, sadness, pitiful living conditions, and violence. In college for my senior paper, I picked The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. With this choice [...]
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Confronting Life and Death in The Road

By Tracie | Published: November 6, 2009
A father and son walk through an Earth that is slowly dying in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. There are few people left in McCarthy’s bleak look at the future and of the people left, not all can be trusted. The father and son, who remain nameless through out the book, travel along road going south, [...]
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