The Road - Cormac McCarthy 3

The Road is narrated and it tells the reader every detail of the setting. "The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void." (McCarthy 6). Here we can see the descriptions that the narrator uses and makes the reader feel in the setting. With this quote when the narrator says "late world" he describes how the world is and he might mean that the world is so destroyed that it has been delayed. McCarthy makes the reader feel in the setting when the narrator says "the cold and the silence". This makes the reader feel in a sad and lonley environment, just like the one that the father and child were in.

When I was reading The Road the narrator made me feel in a sad environment because of the way he described the way of living of the dad and the boy. Also the way that the father talks to his child in a mature way  He also says what the charcters talk but he does not use quotations. Why would McCarthy do that? Does he want to avoid characterizing the father and the child?

"Can I ask you something? he said.

Yes. Of course.

Are we going to die?

Sometime. Not now." (McCarthy 5)
If I were to be summited to that I would not be able to hanndle it. We an see with the qoute that the boy recieved it calmly.