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 * Historical Influence - Chase Charles **

The historical influence in the novel “The Road” the events in this text are affected by history because of society not being aware of their surroundings. As the man in the book says “And he remembers his wife — who left him and the boy, presumably to kill herself and escape this horrible new world” (McCarthy). The wife says that she would rather kill herself then be in this world that is going in a downward spiral. This quote means that people would rather escape their problems then face them head-on. Historical and political events do not affect this story because, there is no where it talks about the government. You can tell that the man wants his son to be happy because he says “The man likes to offer whatever he can to his son to make his world a bit more pleasant and to give him glimpses into the world that existed before him” (McCarthy). The man wants his son to be happy in a time of chaos and destruction.

 Work Cited McCarthy, Cormac. "The Road." Goodreads. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2013. McCarthy, Cormac. "The Road by Cormac McCarthy." Quarterly Conversation RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.


 * Audience - Jacob Ahuero **

The audience in the novel “The Road” are people under the age of 18 in Southeastern states. People can see this because the book is about a Father and his Son trying to survive. This book is a strength because it shows us the life of a post-apocalyptic world because we are possibly close to that. It is giving us a view into what may happen it is helping us because we are getting a better point of view. Mccarthy says “Use no quotation marks in dialogue and for some contractions, he leaves out the apostrophes” (Mccarthy). He is trying to show what life was like in the book “Because this is a post-apocalyptic story, the exemption of these punctuation elements might serve as a way for McCarthy to indicate that in this new world, remnants of the old world — like electricity, running water, and humanity — no longer exist, or they exist in very limited amounts” (Mccarthy). Mccarthy is not using the normal type of punctuation to show that it is the same world just different because water does exist but there is not a lot of it where they live at. Some assumption that he has towards the audience is that this is a possible thing that could happen in our world.

Work Cited

"The Road By Cormac McCarthy Book Summary." Book Summary. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2013.

"The Road Summary." Shmoop. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2013.