A man refusing to give into the temptation of the world around him and not wanting to become one of the “bad people,” is the focus of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This idea is a perfect example of the idea of resistance, or the idea of not giving into the pressures of life and the surrounding environment. Throughout the book, the man shows some of the strongest resistance to not only lose himself to the desolate wasteland the world has become, but to protect the innocence of his young son, and likewise…
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