Essay On Cormac Mccarthy The Road

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Morals: The Road For most people it is easy to follow the ethic codes and do what is morally right. That’s just how humans live together and function together as a society. Although, when people break those ethic codes and they have consequences for their actions. But, what if one didn’t have consequences and wasn’t required to do what was morally right anymore? Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a shockingly realistic novel that conveys what the world might look like after a nuclear disaster and how the people might react.
Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and many other books, was visiting El Paso, Texas with his son John when he first came up with the idea of The Road. McCarthy had, had his son pretty late in his life and started to think …show more content…
However, no one is able to know for sure and that is what makes The Road such a realistic book. In “The Quest of Father and Son: Illuminating Character Identity, Motivation, and Conflict in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road” by Chris Gilbert, he talks about the discussion he had with his students in class. He asked them what they would do if put in the same situation, in a post-apocalyptic world with little to no survivors and no rules. He asked if they would be the “bad guys” or the “good guys”. In a survival situation the class came to a consensus and that was that “would most likely become motivated and controlled by, primal survival needs.”(Gilbert, 43) Which would mean that they would more likely than not be like the “bad guys”. This shows that people, when given a chance to have no rules or restrictions decide to behave barbarically. The people no longer care about morality because they aren’t obligated to, if they kill someone there isn’t going to be any consequences. There isn’t going to be anyone to arrest them and take them to jail, they are free to do whatever they want. However, this is not the case for the father and

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