Cormac Mccarthy The Road Analysis

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Dreams have been a substantial fragment of human evolution since the beginning of time. It is one of the most important elements of survival. One of the main themes in Cormac McCarthy, the Road, is the idea of survival and how the Boy and Father deal with the aspect of the road. Everyone needs sleep to survive and a dream is just a plus to help our mind stay sharp and think creatively while we rest. McCarthey also underlines dreams as a huge theme of the father and son keeping the fire burning. I used dreams and it’s effect on survival on the road as the main theme for my poem. The Father has stated many times that good dreams make people weaker by making them think about their happy places which make them want to give up on the ultimate goal of surviving. The happy places the Father/Man …show more content…
This was a big lesson he wanted to teach his son, that dreams are not always happy and it is better that they aren’t happy. Bad dreams keep you thinking and fighting for the ultimate goal which is survival. It puts you in situations where it may be scary and frightening but hopefully makes you more ready for those certain struggles coming ahead. Dreams are a learning experience and if they were all good or happy, we would never be able to face these struggles and survive like the way we have.Dreams can be like an internal therapist, it helps us work through similar feelings and emotions which eventually reduce the stress when we wake up. Also dreams, once again, are very beneficial due to conflict resolution. As McCarthey describes the effect of dreams on survival through the Man and Boy, bad dreams give you sense of hope as it puts you in similar feelings and emotions as you would go through with the struggle of surviving. It’s a way of experience that one learns by dreaming that gives them the confident to keep the fire