Comparing Mccarthy And Cormac Mccarthy

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Hope is believing there will be an end to the sorrow. It motivates people to keep going and to wish only the greater good. Based on her poem “XXXII’”, Emily Dickinson believes hope will always thrive no matter what. Dickinson's life was mostly spent studying and caring for others yet, she was not social, having only a few friends. Her work was influenced mainly by people in her life who died. Cormac McCarthy as well suffered crucial times in his life for example his first wife left him and he was broke like not only money wise but emotionally thus developed a drinking problem, yet that didn’t stop him from writing astonishing books like The Road. Based on their lives both authors differ their view on hope by using literary devices such as figurative language and diction. McCarthy's point of view on hope is more realistic when compared to Dickinson's proposed daydream view. While Cormac McCarthy argues hope can only exist in difficult …show more content…
Dickinson not only believes hope will be there no matter what but also that in the relationship between hope and its host, hope doesn’t need attention from its host in order to thrive. “Yet in extremity, It never asked a crumb of me” (Dickinson line 11, 12). Dickinson reveals to the reader her view of how hope doesn’t ask nor need anything from its host. For Dickinson to say even in horrible circumstances hope didn’t ask for anything, she is implying that hope can survive on its own, it doesn’t require anything from its host. McCarthy does not contradict with Dickinson’s view on hope, but he too gives his perspective of the relationship between hope and its host and how you have to nurture it. In The Road hope is a young innocent boy while his father is the portrait as the host. “He looked like something out of the death camp. Starved, Exhausted” (McCarthy 36). Here the boy is being described as to someone who has been in a death
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