The Road

For some weeks we are going to read ”The Road” in my English class. It is a book written by Cormack McCarthy, a movie based on the book has been released in the US and will probably some to Norway soon. I haven’t read that much, but I’m going to The Canary Island next week, so I will read the book on the plane or on the beach.

The first pages I have read are about a man and his son. Something terrible has happened to the world and all life seems to be destroyed. In the book we get a pretty grim picture of the world and here is ash all the place, and all the houses are abandoned. It is cold, but we don’t know which month it is. They boy and his father are walking endlessly on the road. I don’t know where they are going, but it seems like they might be headed towards a place where the father has been before and maybe a place where they will find other people.

They have to set camp far away from the road since they are scared to be seen. This I don’t understand, who are they frightened of? I think it is other people or animals, but I don’t know. There are some dialogs in between, but they don’t talk a lot. It is mostly the father’s thoughts that are revealed to us. Many say that they think it was a really boring and less interesting beginning, but I actually think it is ok. There are a lot of descriptions and the whole scene is just scary. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the book, and maybe watch the movie in class someday!