The+Road

McCarthy, Cormac __The Road__ Colin Craig __Rating__ 5 Stars __Summary__ __The Road__ depicts a world unimaginable to anyone in this age, full of gray skies blocking the bright sun whose warmth we’ve taken for granted. A world where it’s cause of destruction is unknown. A world where animals and plants are dead and gone, only the carcasses of their former lives remain in the ash. This is a world where friends don’t exist; a world where the freezing elements conquer us warm-blooded mammals and only the ravaging cannibals and the stubborn survive. This is the road. This is the world where an unnamed man and his child survive in. Their goal is to get to the coast down south in the ruined America and see if it is warmer down there and if there is life. Along the way they face starvation as food is heavily depleted and gone, freezing temperatures, sometimes forest fires and earthquakes. But the most horrifying foe they face is other humans, cannibals. The little things count in this nightmare of a world and this unknown family figures that out along the way. __Review__ __The Road__ is a chilling journey that ventures into the darkest depths of humanity and the world itself. The world is a depressing and bleak one for the man and the boy as they eat what seems like only rats would eat, the tiniest crumbs. I like how even though Cormac McCarthy creates a dark unknown, (the cause of this apocalypse or even the names of the characters are not described) the author still binds the reader to fate of the man and the boy. With the destruction of the world and how bad the remains of humanity have become, they still go on and even the tiniest things shine hope for them. While the book is very depressing, beginning to end which some readers might dislike, (even myself at some points) it is still worth the read and the cannibal parts are very controlled in how gory they are. I also was confused at some of the imagery at times, like how the setting was supposed to look which made it hard to understand the problem they were facing. That’s about it in the few weaknesses to this incredible book. In all __The Road__ is a very unique and original concept that makes even the most dooming plots and scenarios very possible to survive and I would very much recommend it to anyone who loves a great story.