The Road Novel-Reading

Questions: 1. Why do you thin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ink Cormac has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of the man* and the boy* affect the way in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in which readers relate to them? 2. How is Cormac able to make the post-apocalyptic world of The Road (Lin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">inks to an external site.) seem so real and utterly terrifyin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ing? Which descriptive passages are especially vivid and visceral in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in their depiction of this blasted landscape? What do you fin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ind to be the most horrifyin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ing features of this world and the survivors who in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">inhabit it? 3. The man and the boy thin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ink of themselves as the 'good guys.' In what ways are they like and unlike the 'bad guys' they encounter? What do you thin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ink Cormac is suggestin" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in the scenes in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in which the boy begs his father to be merciful to the strangers they encounter on the road? How is the boy able to retain" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in his compassion—to be, as one reviewer put it, "compassion in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">in" rel="nofollow">incarnate*?