Running Head: Biblical Comparison of The Road
Biblical Comparison of The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Joshua G. West
Henry County High School
Abstract
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) is a novel that explains the struggles of a father and son as they thrive to survive in a post-apocalyptic society. Cormac McCarthy (2006) put a lot of details into the story and this world, but I believe he did not make up this. There are many clues and links between his story and what the Bible has so say about the rapture and tribulation period. From the beginning of the world they live in, to the characters involved in the novel, Cormac McCarthy’s (2006) novel could be described as parable of what the bible has to say of the end times. However, the novel goes deeper than just a comparison to the end times, it goes into saving your moral values, no matter how difficult your trials are becoming.
Biblical Comparison of The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Words often have a deeper meaning then what we first see or hear. In Cormac McCarthy’s (2006) prize winning novel, The Road, McCarthy (2006) wrote down the story of a man and his son struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Along their journey you see the mother walk out on them, robbers attack them and inner struggle in their own minds. If one takes a closer look at the story, they see several points which could all lead back to a single source and hold a deeper meaning.
When facing a tough dilemma, it can be a quite difficult task to keep moral values first priority. The father and his son spent 7 years in this post-apocalyptic environment. How did they manage to last almost a decade while “carrying the fire?” (McCarthy, 2006, p. 129) What fueled their persistence? In their journey they faced many life threatening dilemmas on the road to survival, but the hardest predicament was keeping their morality through all of the tribulations and trials.
Before the great change in society, the man wasn’t very much of a...