Cormac Mccarthy The Road Essay

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Independent Study Project Written Essay: The Road

The Road is a novel written by Cormac McCarthy in 2006, which is a post-apocalyptic fiction that has been adapted to film. The film adaptation of The Road was directed by John Hillcoat and was released in 2009. The novel received great praise and there was an immediate plan to adapt the novel to a film just a few years after it was written. The Road is a story of survival in the post-apocalyptic world, which brings the main characters in tough, life and death situations where they are challenged physical, mentally, and emotionally, as they look for hope in a world where humanity has lost its ways.
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The Road is about the story of survival of a father and son in a post-apocalyptic world, where the world is very frightening because people have relied on killing, stealing, and even cannibalism in order to survive. In The Road, the characters are fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world where people are suffering from hunger and lack of daily necessities. In the post-apocalyptic world, there is always danger that exists, and the novel and film shows how much danger …show more content…

The story is told most of the time by the narrator who narrates the story of Man and Boy and the other characters that they meet. However, the storytelling also shifts to the Man’s point of view in many occasions, in which the thoughts of the Man are expressed for others to know. The film does an excellent way of telling the story through the point of view of the Man, because it shows how much the struggle of survival can be very tiring to a person’s mental state. In addition, the flashbacks that are shown in the film are from the Man’s thoughts, but are told in a third person point of view. Therefore, the story is told mostly in third person omniscient in both the novel and film

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