04-10-2009, 07:10 PM | #31 | |
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In the Road, father and son rebel against nature, follow their ingrained Christian outlook, and win our sympathy.
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04-10-2009, 07:35 PM | #32 |
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I don't know that the novel asks to accept or like what the father has done. In fact, the entire novel shows a struggle between the father's ethos and the son's sense of morality.
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04-10-2009, 09:50 PM | #33 |
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Not the entire novel. The son's ethos is largely a product of the father's. They disagree on the margins, whether to save a dog, to give some of their precious food to a hopeless old man. They agree it's a bad thing to kill and eat other humans. In this they are in solidarity and apart from virtually all of humankind that still remains.
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at first glance, survival may seem to be the paramount objective -- but it is not quite paramount -- not quite at any cost. that separateness from world -- the unwillingness to murder and eat other humans -- sets the two main characters apart. Last edited by Bruincoug; 04-12-2009 at 06:16 PM. |
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04-20-2009, 07:18 PM | #35 |
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This book can reveal much about the reader.
A friend who read this book told me, "I thought it was homoerotic in a NAMBLA kind of way." Stunned, I replied, "You mean, you thought there was a homoerotic subtext between the man and his son?" "Yes." Yowzers. Who wants to dive into that guys barrel of monkeys? |
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