7/5/2023 0 Comments Cormac mccarthy the road 2006![]() The fact that vigilance is a matter of life and death means that the father’s love is ideally unrelenting, and this excites a kind of yearning in the reader to feel such love, or to be its object. The father has decided that they need to keep walking until they reach the ocean, which might somehow be exempt from the general desolation, but to travel the road is to see terrible things and to be in continual danger. The father in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is an avatar of that ferocity and power, and the novel is frequently praised for the intensity of the father’s love as he and his son follow the road through the “black jackstraw land” of a cold, postapocalyptic landscape. Freed, it frees prodigious energies whose object is the child’s survival. It can lead a subdued life, this love, without once forgetting that its homeground is the old savannah of life-and-death. ![]() ![]() It is rarely seen its magnitude is mostly irrelevant to ordinariness. Comprehension of the shocking extent of one’s love for one’s child is a secret component of big moments like birth or, knock on wood, bad accidents, and an ongoing crisis requires sustained exercise of this love whose wildness and authority are usually obscured by the clutter of lesser emotion, the white noise of distraction. ![]() ![]() It might be easy to be a good father in the wake of an apocalypse. ![]()
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