Logan Briand Meaning of Work

 In The Road by Cormac McCarthy we notice how a society that is entirely new without a touch of the past can break people as well as ruin the lives of other. In this futuristic world, almost zero percent of the previous world remains and a young son and father must survive.

When reading, I noticed three main things that everyone who reads this novel should take away. The first I noticed is that love will triumph in the end. The son and father were constantly facing adversity through their journey but by their love for each other, they fought to stay alive because they were all each other had. This is important to take away from the novel as it is still very relevant to this day. The lessons that love can teach us, may help us push through the hardest of times.

Perseverance is also one of the three main take away's from this novel. Whenever a challenge was given to the father and son, they found a way to push through it. In this world today, to many people give up when they face challenges and this novel shows why you never give up. This remains true to this day because we can all persevere through the toughest of our times and keep hope alive as well. This showed me that no matter what life throws you, in the case a new society, you must make the best of it.

The third biggest take away that I had from this novel was to have a relationship with god. In this novel we notice how the relationship with god impacts the son and father and how god keeps them going. There were many biblical references in this novel which is an occurring thing in most AP books as we have seen the references in the Handmaid's Tale and other readings. I believe that this relationship is how the father and son are able to truly push through.

This novel has some similarities compared to other books we have read but it also has some slight differences. The novel that I would compare The Road to the most would be Handmaid's Tale. The biggest thing they have in common would be the fact they are in a futuristic problem and posed with a problem and must come up with a solution in order to escape. The main difference that I would note however, is that Handmaid's Tale is one in which one was forced to conform to society and one was forced to defy the new society. These books have many similarities when it comes to biblical references as well as the overall themes in the book.