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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Post-Apocalpytic/The Road
The Road written by Cormac McCarthy, I would say, is considered a post-apocalyptic and a dystopian novel. According to Wikipedia, The Road portraits all of these characteristics and how it set foot into a society of all humanity becoming extinct except a father and a son. Seeking for life, the bond between them is an important figure concentrated in the story after a tragic incident of the world. The style of McCarthy's writing is very interesting to me. The story seems as if the father is the narrator and the setting begins to be on the road. It is mysterious to readers that the characters in the novel has not yet been revealed, but we do know their relationship and the goals they seek. All demises of these societies were driven from apocalyptic causes that resulted from a dystopian society. This reminds me of the movie I am Legend. That society had a belief of curing cancer, but in fact, created human beings who were infected and became zombie-like creatures. There is no reason or difference of a dystopian society to have different meanings. The answer of all those societies to be regular people and a society that is balanced. Even nature is balanced in a way, a way that is stablized no matter how much is changed.
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