I've decided that I want to blog about the road for today. So far I really am enjoying the novel and find Cormac McCarthy to be an awesome writer. Going into reading the book for class I was really excited that we would be getting to read The Road as I had heard a lot of really good things about it, specifically from my sister who highly reccomended it. I'm glad that the book is very much living up to the reviews that it was given as I hate to hear a lot of really good things about a book and then it ends up being a flop.
One of the things that I am oddly enjoying is using the envelope passages to track the story. When I first started it I figured that I would end up hating it and would just be doing it for the grade, however as I continue to do it I like that it gives me a way to track the progress of the book. I also like that it makes me slow down and think about the different aspects that are present in the book.
For my two topics I was tracking dreams/flash backs and faith/religion. Both of these pull out some interesting quotes and pieces in the novel however, the relationship with the mother during the mans flashbacks is something that greatly intrigues me. It is evident that she is no longer traveling with the man and the boy but we only get pieces of what happen with her and all revealed slowly over time. It is also interesting the tie that the mother and death seem to have with one another, as both of them seem to linger over the man and the boy, close enough that they can almost reach them several times, yet far enough away that they are never caught by either.
As the novel progresses I will be extremely interested to learn more about what happened with the mother and what her relationship with death (other than that she appears to be dead) is.
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