Essay --

In this romance the presentation of the father is depicted as a father protecting his sons innocence. Its almost as if the small-arm is roled on this planet for one and only(a) major purpose to protect and keep his son alive. The burnt man passage gives the reader an insight into a world that has absence of goal and civilization in the post-apocalyptic world that both the son and man inhabit, the component of the boy and the father are further established for the reader and galore(postnominal) of the techniques that become characteristic of McCarthys style in the novel. Structurally the burned-over man scene is one of the horrific episodes that occur in the novel and it is the first to take place, foreshadowing, future horrific episodes that will take place later on in the novel. This essay will be exploring these ideas in more depth looking closely at how the father and boy are portrayed in this part of the extract.The passage begins with a typical series of simple sentenc es describing the boy and the man. they went on the boy was crying. He unploughed looking back McCarthys style of writing mainly consist of short, clear an...