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.