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This 3 page paper reviews the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy and argues that humanity is a mixture of good and evil. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Humanity in The Road, a Novel by Cormac McCarthy Research
Compiled by K. Von Huben 10/2010 Please Introduction Cormac McCarthys post-apocalyptic novel The Road is a
bleak and uncompromising look at what mankinds future might be after some unspecified disaster. The picture is ugly and unsettling, but not entirely without hope. This paper considers the road
and other sources to answer the question of whether or not humanity is naturally good, evil or a mixture of both. Discussion The protagonist of The Road, which was
recently made into a film starring Viggo Mortensen, is an unnamed man who, along with his son, is struggling across a barren landscape, trying to go south to the sea
where it will be warmer and, they hope, they will be able to find food (McCarthy, 2006). McCarthys imagery is so evocative that a reader soon begins to feel filthy
and cold, along with the two main characters: "The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop. The segments of road down there among the dead trees ... he
just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land" (McCarthy, 2006, p. 4). The world that McCarthy describes is cold, grey and dead, with
black dust swirling over everything. Almost all of humanity is dead, and the few that have survived are cannibals; roaming in filthy packs and "stockpiling" humans, living and dead, for
later consumption (McCarthy, 2006). The disaster that overtook the planet is never specified, though it seems likely it was nuclear war since the temperature is always cold; a nuclear winter
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