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    <title>The Road Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Road Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I fully agree with mrs-campbell's answer. I want to add that one detail...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I fully agree with mrs-campbell's answer. I want to add that one detail at the end of the novel (every reader will probably focus on different details, of course) makes me have hope for the young boy at the story's end. The man with the rifle who appears at the novel's end and promises to take care of the boy -- and to make him part of the family that mrs-campbell refers to -- proves his trustworthiness when he keeps his promise to wrap the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I believe that this novel ends with a sense of hope and brightness. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I believe that this novel ends with a sense of hope and brightness.  The boy coming across a real family that was willing to take him in was a beacon of luck and light in his thus far very dreary and difficult existence.  The fact that there is a family out there that is still together, that is willing to take yet another person into it, confirms what the father had been trying to teach the boy the entire time, that "the fire" is still alive...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:56:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Road," after knowing what happens to the father and the son,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Road," after knowing what happens to the father and the son, does this book end in despair or with hope?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:50:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Certainly, there are several approaches to an analysis of Cormac...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Certainly, there are several approaches to an analysis of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."  While many see the Southern Gothic of William Faulkner and the Naturalism of such writers as Jack London and Stephen Crane, one can draw parallels to one of these genres, analyzing the novel as Gothic or as Naturalistic.
Or, perhaps, one could write how "The Road" is the antithesis of "The Grapes of Wrath" in which the Joad family drive to cornucopia of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:24:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What would be good essay topics for "The Road"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What would be good essay topics for "The Road"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:02:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In addition to the previous post, it is the son's rebellion against the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In addition to the previous post, it is the son's rebellion against the father's paranoid, overprotective parenting that is the turning point in the novel which leads the son to salvation in the end.
There are two turning points in the novel: 1) the boy is nearly taken hostage; 2) the father takes the man hostage.  Both of which lead up to the resolution: the survival of the boy and "the fire," indeed, of all future generations.
In the first...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:04:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The father has to make many difficult decisions in the course of every...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The father has to make many difficult decisions in the course of every day as he and his son battle for surivival.  A lot of these decisions seem to be harsh and cruel at the time, but they are all done in the name of helping to teach his son valuable lessons about survival, and about the importance of maintaining human decency.  They are difficult lessons to teach, because they are seemingly contradictory.
Whenever they come across a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:25:52 PST</pubDate>
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In "The Road" how do the father's decisions help him raise his son in...]]></title>
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In "The Road" how do the father's decisions help him raise his son in the world and teach him who to trust and who not to trust?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Normally, whenever the father and the son encounter a survivor of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Normally, whenever the father and the son encounter a survivor of the rough world that they are living in, the father discourages offering any help whatsoever.  It might seem cruel, but it is really a survival tactic.  First of all, they only have a limited amont of food, and to share any food brings death even closer.  Secondly, the more people they have in a group, the harder it is to hide and remain inconspicuous, which is necessary to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:06:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Road, in the part where the son and the father come across the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Road, in the part where the son and the father come across the old man, why does the father give in to help him?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:09:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It depends on what you call the antagonist; there are several...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It depends on what you call the antagonist; there are several possibilities.  If the antagonist is the hopelessness of the world that they live in, then the son bears up remarkably well.  He tends to have more compassion and hope than his father does, and maintains a faith in the goodness of people, despite the awful circumstances that they live in.  If the antagonist is the cannabilistic barbarians that they run into occasionally, that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the novel "The Road" how does the antagonist affect the son's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the novel "The Road" how does the antagonist affect the son's decisions or thinking?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:56:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Book reviews tend to have specific elements.  First, there is an...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/road-mccarthy/q-and-a/hi-has-anyone-done-book-review-road-by-cormac-116671</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Book reviews tend to have specific elements.  First, there is an overall statement of your opinion on the quality of the book itself.  Then, there is a brief plot summary (without giving away key endings or surprises in the storyline).  Next comes a detailed explanation behind your opinions on the following items:  writing style and quality, plotline, characters, comparisons to other works by the same author or other works in the same...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:34:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Has anyone done a book review on "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy? I have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Has anyone done a book review on "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy? I have to do a 2000 word review! I've never done one.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:22:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Cormac McCarthy's Southern Gothic and Naturalistic "The Road," the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/road-mccarthy/q-and-a/what-ways-road-an-important-symbol-novel-what-can-116287</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Cormac McCarthy's Southern Gothic and Naturalistic "The Road," the father and his boy travel the road to the ocean.  The road is what gives them direction, what gives them purpose, what affords them the opportunity for a reason to survive:  they must keep traversing the road.  It is the life-driving source in a world devastated and eradicated. That the road is central to the father and son's existences is evidenced in this passage from...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Roads almost always represent the journey of life. They can also be seen...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Roads almost always represent the journey of life. They can also be seen as connectors and, in the post-apocalyptic world of McCarthy's novel, as a pathway that is fraught with danger (pretty much all the cannibalistic "bad guys" are encountered along the road) and that may or may not lead to salvation.
The open road is, of course, a standard symbol of freedom and self-discovery in American literature (and American mythology in general). Just...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:40:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In what ways is the road an important symbol in the novel? (what can the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In what ways is the road an important symbol in the novel? (what can the road represent?)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There's good "fire" quotes, a symbol of hope, survival, and (ironically)...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There's good "fire" quotes, a symbol of hope, survival, and (ironically) the destruction that caused this post-apocalyptic world:


Pg. 83: "Nothing bad is going to happen to us...because we're carrying the fire."
Pg. 129: "We're the good guys...and we're carrying the fire."
Pg. 172: "I havent seen a fire in a long time, thats all.  I live like an animal."
Pg. 186: "Nowhere to build a fire.  Nowhere safe."
Pg. 216: "Are they carrying the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are there any good quotes to memorise that look good in an essay?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are there any good quotes to memorise that look good in an essay?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Expostion: we learn that a series of concussions has caused a world-wide...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Expostion: we learn that a series of concussions has caused a world-wide blackout, that the son was born after the blackout, that the boy's mother committed suicide soon after, and that the father, who is sick and has a gun with two bullets, wants to travel southwest along the road to the ocean.  The novel starts in medias res, so most of this expostion comes in bits and pieces of flashbacks strewn throughout the novel.
Rising...]]></description>
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