Text Evidence
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Analysis
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"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."
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142
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McCarthy portrayed a nonchalant attitude
in the presence of the father and son. Tomorrow wasn't promised and they were
at the breaking point.
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“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."
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10
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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.
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"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.”
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110
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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.
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"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."
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160
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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.
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"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.”
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24
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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.
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“Nobody
wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
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169
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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.
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“There
is no God and we are his prophets.”
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143
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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.
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"You have to carry the fire.
I don't know how to.
Yes you do.
Is it real? The fire?
Yes it is.”
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234
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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.
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"The world
shrinking down about a raw core of passable entities. The names of things
slowly following those things into oblivion.”
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75
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All things of the world that McCarthy created are slowly but surly coming to an end.
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“What's
the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.” |
272
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Each day is a constant struggle to survive which ties into the theme of survival and resilience.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
DJ's for The Road
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