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A 4 page essay that looks at 2 books. Cormac McCarthy in The Road and Clifford Chase in Winkie offer two very different commentaries on the corruption, narrow-mindedness and hubris that colors the present political and social atmosphere in the United States. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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political and social atmosphere in the United States. However, the perspectives of these two novels are very different. McCarthys novel suggests that the current saber-rattling that is going on Washington-where
the Bush administration intimates impeding war with Iran and the President has uttered the horrendous words "World War III"-will end with nuclear annihilation. Chase, on the other hand, satirizes
the present, as he suggests with a fanciful fairy tale that American society has lost its values and has become a monster state where gross injustice is the order of
the day. Examination of both books shows that these texts are social commentaries on the America and its flaws and corruptions. McCarthys The Road is an post-apocalyptic tale of
life in the US following a nuclear war. McCarthys writing style is sometimes poetic in expressing the hubris of the leaders who created the novels devastated world, "Borrowed time and
borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it" (McCarthy 10). The novel describes the journey of the two main characters, an unnamed father and son as they journey
south. They have no "real destination" as "there is no safe place to go" (Shy 38). McCarthy never relates what happened, precisely, to cause the nuclear holocaust that has
destroyed civilization and the world as we know it because this point is not relevant. Whatever the rationale, the world is gone. Everyone lost. The world is covered in ash.
"Wildlife is absent and the surviving population is so sparse and desolate" that every stranger has to be regarded as a potential enemy who might try to take the meager
possessions that people use to survive. The only feature of this novel that offers respite from its relieved vision of suffering and despair is the deep love between the
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