DJ's for The Road

Text Evidence	Page #			Analysis
"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."	142			McCarthy portrayed a nonchalant attitude in the presence of the father and son. Tomorrow wasn't promised and they were at the breaking point.
“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, don't you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."	10			McCarthy does a good job with figurative language. He’s believes that things that one puts out of their mind might be important in the end and need to be remembered. And those careless memories that are in our head constantly may need to leave.
"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe.”	110			The world that they live in are torn down and a desolate one. It leads the reader to believe that this world is post- apocalyptic that will and cannot be restored.
"Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you."	160			McCarthy is saying that when your dreams are non-realistic or not achievable and one is still happy with that dream, that means that person is giving up and  the father refuses for his son to give up.
"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it.”	24			whats done in the dark eventually comes to the light and this leads the reader to believe that there is something that is being hidden that McCarthy will eventually enlighten the audience on.
“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”	169			No one wants to live in this destructive world, but no ones wants to die they would just rather know what was going to happen to them.
“There is no God and we are his prophets.”	143			The father has given up spiritually. he believes that if there really was a  God, he would not have put them through all the distress that he has thus far.
"You have to carry the fire. I don't know how to. Yes you do. Is it real? The fire? Yes it is.”		234	The fire carries as a recurring symbol through out the novel symbolizing the urge to keep moving forward despite of the father and his sons' current conditions.
"The world shrinking down about a raw core of passable entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion.”		75	All things of the world that McCarthy created are slowly but surly coming to an end.
“What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”		272	Each day is a constant struggle to survive which ties into the theme of survival and resilience.

theme chart

conflict	motif	Type of conflict	Theme
A son and father working together to survive in a desolate and a torn down world.	Good and evil	man vs. Nature or man vs. man	survival and resilience

Evidence:   : "The boy was all that stood between him and death" (25). This relates to the theme because it shows that the fathers longing for survival is all because of his love for his son.

Tear essay #1

     Cormac McCarthy creates a black,  desolate soul depriving wasteland where even the sun  doesn't appear.  The novel may progress, but the atmosphere surrounding the novel persists.  As the novel is introduced,  danger.and desolation are the norms for this society.  through the use of pathos, McCarthy shows that even through the gloomy environment,  a fathers efforts to protect is son  never dwindles in hopes of survival.
   The son is introduced as a timid little boy who is trying to understand the world he lives in.  " He studied what he could see.  The segments of the road down there among dead trees. Looking for anything of color.  Any movement."  The boy conveys pathos as his naive personality gives the audience insight into the boys confusion. McCarthy goes on to portray that with out the guidance of his father the boy will be lost.
   The father is seen as the leader ;the man in charge with quick thinking and experience,  he looks to himself to protect his 10 year old boy but deep down,  the father is as lost as his son but must keep positive for the both of them.  " He woke before dawn and watched the gray day break.  Slow and half opaque.  He rose while the boy slept and pulled in just shoes and wrapped in his blanket he walked out though the trees.... " McCarthy shows that the father wants the son to be somewhat unaware of the full extent of the situation at hand simply because of his age and how innocent and fragile his mind is. The audience feels compassion toward the father and some readers may begin to sympathize with the father and his efforts to protect his only son.
    Both father and son have learned to work hand in hand in order for survival. piece of mind is key, and judging from endless attacks of cannnabals,  weather, and unforseen obstacles it has been proven tough to have such a thing. "you wanted to know what the bad guys looked like. Now you know.  It may happen again.  My job is to take care of you.... I will kill anyone Who touches you. " McCarthy shows that the father will stop at no length in regards to protecting his son.  a lot of emotion is felt by the reader, and he audience can infer that maintaing a safe state will be a hard thing to do.