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1.  2. Imagery 3. Kacey Layne Seeloff 4. Imagery plays a huge part in the complement of the novel, The Road. Imagery, words synchronized together to create a very descriptive scene that paints a picture in the readers’ mind is used regularly in the novel.”By the door were two softdrink machines that had been tilted over into the floor and opened with a prybar. Coins everywhere in the ash. He sat and ran his hand around the works of the gutted machines and in the second one it closed over a cold metal cylinder. He withdrew it slowly and sat looking at a Coca-Cola” (McCarthy 35). McCarthy uses Coca-Cola as a symbol of civilization, possible the last hope for the survivors. The piece strikes the audience due to the astonishing imagery that causes the reader to physically and mentally feel the moment of the last sign of hope in their very hand. This is where the reader and the writer differ; the reader of this book still has a hope in their life, Coca-Cola is an easy resource for the audience. The barrier of population and isolation is heavily built. This also proves a sign of modern culture. Delights, Coca-Cola for example, are within a swift arm reach to the members of this nation. A world so nourished finally encounters a scene much different from their own. 5. Citations: McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print. "The Road Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc, 2013. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. French, Philip. "The Road." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited, 2 Jan. 2010. Web. 10 Oct. 2013.

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4. The aim of The Road is to show how you don't see what you have until it is gone, and how death and darkness can cause. Seeing these two people fighting for their lives after everything they had went away. In this post-apocalyptic world they are traveling in. Traveling along these roads, stopping at many different places on the way. Living off everything find, like in the Coca-Cola chapter they find a coca-cola and say “This could be the last cola in the world” (Shmoop). This shows people not to take everything for granted and cherish what you have.

5. Citations "The Road Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc, 2013. Web. 1 0 Oct. 2013. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. Imagery <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3. John Kinney <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4. This book has a lot of imagery that pertains to history. When McCarthy wrote “The Road” it was around the time of the Cold War. There was a constant fear of a nuclear war and the aftermath of such. This was reflected in the imagery of the book. The road was the constant theme that was repeated in the story, the idea of a barren post-apocalyptic world was displayed by this road that the characters traveled on. This displays the common fear of being alone in a world that nobody is there. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5. Citation: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Shmoop Editorial Team. "The Road"Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2008. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"The Road." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited, 2 Jan. 2010. Web. 10 Oct. 2013.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. Imagery <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3. Lorenzo Sanchez <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4. The audience can be anyone but they person reading it would most likely be in high school and older due to the word choice and the way things are described. A writer said,”McCarthy describes the road so well – that it hovers over the novel as a major image. The road is a desolate, transient thing, full of danger. In fact, it's probably useful to think of the road as both an actual, physical setting and and a mental state.”(Shmoop Editorial Team). An example from the book is when the father shoots a flare gun and it gives a very detailed description,”He cocked the gun and aimed it out over the bay and pulled the trigger. The flare arced up into the murk with a long whoosh and broke somewhere out over the water in a clouded light and hung there. The hot tendrils of magnesium drifted slowly down the dark and the pale foreshore tide started in the glare and slowly faded. He looked down at the boy's upturned face. “. (Shmoop Editorial Team). Its also probably intended towards people who are into more science fiction books although this is something that could happen.The reason why it would be hard for people to get into this book is because not all people would believe this would happen. Its also intended for an older audience so not too many kids in middle school or below will read this book. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5. Citations: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Shmoop Editorial Team. "The Road"Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2008. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print.

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