Introduction amp Section 1 Cormac McCarthy The Road 2006 No Country for Old Men 2005 The Crossing 1994 All the Pretty Horses 1992 Blood Meridian 1985 Humans struggling to survive extinction in order for life to reemerge ID: 163489
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THE ROADIntroduction & Section 1Slide2
Cormac McCarthy
The Road (2006)
No Country for Old Men (2005)
The Crossing (1994)
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
Blood Meridian (1985)Slide3
Humans struggling to survive extinction in order for life to reemerge.
Living a good and altruistic life despite the harshness of the world.
Intentionally withholding information to protect others.
Man’s attempt to overcome nature’s obstacles.
The sacrificial demands of a father’s love.
ThemesSlide4
The Apocalypse GenreSlide5
Can we maintain humanity in a post-apocalyptic world?
What matters most when the world ends
?
How does an author’s choices affect our mood as we read?
How do literary devices help us understand how a novel’s theme develops?
Essential QuestionsSlide6
Similes/Metaphors
Tone/Mood
Allusion
Syntax (
sentence structure
)Diction (word choice)Literary DevicesSlide7
And now to The Road…
turn to page 3 and read.Slide8
The cave creature… what movie or literary character(s) do you think of?Slide9
SIMILESA comparison made between two things using the words “like” or “as.”
Ex.
“Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.” (pg. 3)Slide10
FINDING SIMILES
-“Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost”
(p.3
)
THE
MAN & BOY-“and sightless as the eggs of spiders” (p.3-4) THE CREATURE’S EYESSlide11
AMBIGUITYSomething that does not have a single clear meaning; ambiguous.
Ex. “The teacher’s
ambiguous
instructions made it difficult to complete the assignment.” Slide12
What do I know
?
What do I want to know?
Why does McCarthy write ambiguously here?
EXAMPLE: The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where very few humans have survived. How and when did the apocalyptic event take place?
I
think he wants to capture our attention and imaginations as readers—let us paint the picture.
FINDING AMBIGUITYSlide13
What do I know?
What do I want to know?
Why does McCarthy write ambiguously here?
1) “He thought the month was October but he wasn’t sure.” (p.4) What gave the man this impression…
I think McCarthy…
YOUR TURN!Slide14Slide15
-“like a charcoal drawing sketched across the
waste”
(p.8
) THE
CITY
-“vanished in night’s onset like an apparition” (p.9) THE CITY-“streaked with black from the rain like some old world thespian” (p.10) THE BOYSlide16Slide17
-“like the great pendulum in its rotunda”
(p.15
) THE
MAN/MOVEMENTS
-“watched it expire there like the last host of
christendom” (p.16) THE SNOWFLAKE-“stood on the rear rail like a dogmusher” (p.18) THE MAN & BOY-“They stood in the rain like farm animals” (p.20) THE MAN &
BOYSlide18
Watch for the clue on page 21 hinting at where they are currently traveling in America!Slide19Slide20Slide21
Stop reading at page 25.