Rhetorical Analysis Of The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

The Rhetorical Analysis of interview between Cormac McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey Cormac McCarthy, an American novelist, and screenwriter attended an interview from a 2007 episode, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, an American media proprietor, actress, and producer.

In the video, they talked topics concentrating on McCarthy’s novel named “The Road” and McCarthy’s career of being a writer. Obviously, Oprah Winfrey’s purpose of the interview is to explore something people did not know about McCarthy, after all, it was McCarthy’s first interview of his life, which means people could not know anything about him before. And also, there is an argument in the video whether the novel “The Road” was written as a love story to his second Son, John McCarthy.

And in the interview, when the host Winfrey asks a question about “where did this apocalyptic dream come from?” And McCarthy responded to her by mentioning his son John, and McCarthy says about one night, he checked in a hotel with his son John, and John fell to sleep. He felt this town is nothing moving, but he could hear the trains going through. And he came up an image of what this town might look like in 50 or 100 years, then he thought a lot about his son John, and 4 years later, he finished the novel “The Road.” In the late of the interview, McCarthy said: My son practically convert to this book and without him, this book would not come