The End of the Line.

It's the End… well I have achieved the goal of getting to the last page… I'm sad it ended, but glad because now I can inturpurate the Allygory of the Novel, The Road.

An alygory, an extended metaphor… whatever… yea McCarthy left us a cool, scare, true, underlining message in the end of the Road for us to find. Well it is pretty cool, it is about how we have to protect Nature or else she will kill herself by simply walking out the door.

It’s sad, but true. We are making mother nature go against its self and eventually, if we don’t change, just gonna get up and leave us hanging high and dry.

What I’m trying to say out that through out the novel, the wife represents Mother Nature and she leaves the family (killing herself). But He leaves us with some more information that changed my mind on the sadness of the whole travels of the Boy and Father.

Metaphor... 

At the end the dad dies :’(, but the boy finds away out to brighter days. What this represents is the family is humanity, the dad is the old ways, and the boy is the new ways. Yes sacrifices have to be made, but things can get better.   

WHAT NO COMMAS!!!

I learned a lot in the interview between McCarthy and Ophera, but in specific his lack of punctuations within the novel, The Road.  Through out the book we see thing like this: “Then he opened his eyes. Hi, Papa, he said.” (2) Or some of this “Nothing to see. No smoke. Can I see? the boy said. Yes. Of course you can. The boy leaned on the cart and adjusted the wheel. What do you see? the man said. Nothing.” (5).

This made it harder to read, but it made me look at it more carefully. 

McCarthy says its because when he was little he was thought that punctuations were made to make reading easy. Well I think they are, but that is not what he wants us to think.

I think he is trying to give more room to interpretation. Well with less commas and semicolons comes more room for the reader (me and you) to come up with our own way of well… reading the text (The Road).

The truth of the matter is that he can say one thing and we can interprate another, but there is a reason why there is a lack of punctuation, many, but there are.