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.

“This book is dedicated to JOHN FRANCIS McCARTHY”, written by McCarthy’s introduction part of his novel “The Road”.

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

out.
Although McCarthy had never done the interview before, he is extremely famous and respectful, just like video pointed out that: McCarthy is extensively considered as one of the best living American writers over the past four decades, and he has written 10 awesome novels already. One of them called “All the Pretty Horses” won the National Book Award and was made into a motion picture. The road, mainly talked in this interview, currently received one of the Publishing’s most prestigious Award.
In the video, when the host Winfrey directly asked him: Is this a love story to your son? Subsequently, McCarthy hesitated for a couple of seconds and became blushed and embarrassed. Finally, he gave us an answer: “I supposed it is”. As people all know, people would become blushed and embarrassed when they are asked a question that they are shy about it or they answer questions which relate to love, secrets and something they do not really want people to know about. And McCarthy also introduced a story mentioning his son John falling to sleep in a hotel, and McCarthy just looked out of window and thought about his little son John, which portrays a lovely scene pushing audience in and feel touched and appreciated.
Overall, McCarthy spent a bunch of time talking about his second son John and connected with him with the novel “The Road”. In Logos, McCarthy did write the novel “The Road” to his little son and admitted that “The Road” came because my son literally convert this book and there would have not “ The Road” without my little boy. In Ethos, McCarthy has got a huge amount of awards and credibility, which is convincing to let people believe him what he said about his story and his son. In Pathos, McCarthy got embarrassed and blushed when Winfrey asked him about love story to your son John, which means this is a truth McCarthy did not want to face or being shy about showing love to his son in the interview. The three persuasive pieces of evidence are enough to say “YES” to the argument that the novel “The Road” is a love story to his son John.