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The17sss
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Registered: May 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
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quote: | Originally posted by chimera66
added the road to my queue because of someone's suggestion, just finished it and can't really say i saw the point. |
You were probably so beaten down by the difficult and depressing to put the optimism in perspective. This is the best explanation I've read, given by author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) that should help clarify the point of The Road:
a portion of his commentary:
quote: | Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing.
But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. |
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Aug-11-2010 00:57
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Meat187
Diese scheiß Katze
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: The Night's Plutonian Shore
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Aug-11-2010 05:27
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