Interesting moments in The Road

In the novel The Road by Cormac Mccarthy, I find it appalling when the author vividly describes every detail of what exactly is going on in the scenes. Apparently I find the beginning paragraph of the novel very interesting, because it describes a dream that man has of wonders imaging the apocalyptic world they are in. I noticed that the author uses the word 'gray' simultaneously throughout the story. This mentioning of gray constantly is describing the feel of constancy that the apocalyptic world is alive. The author maintains the feel and does not lose the sense that the world does not exist anymore. According to line 2 in first paragraph, "Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before." This gives the reader a sense of darkness and eeriness. in line 8, "Deep stone flues where the water dripped and sang," describes there is pure silence and where the dripping of water was the sound of existence. In line 9, "Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth, and the hours and the days of it, and the years without cease," mentions the world remains in silence and peace with no other living existence exist besides the father and the son. Coming to a conclusion, reading the novel currently fascinates me. The words he uses has poetic deep meanings behind it. I look forward to continue to read more about it.

Beginning of the new semester! English 102!

English 102..... the new start of a new semester. I have enjoyed English 101 which was the beginning for Rhetoric Arguments. Now starting English 102 with Bevill, I am pleased that I have selected The Inquiry to the Understandings of The Apocalypse. As I am prepared to write about this subject, research, and findings, English composition is necessary for my major.

The Apocalypse, so far what I know about it briefly is that the world is going to end on December 21, 2012. I want to say that this is just theoretical statement, but there are many reasons to support the possible effects that cause to lead up to this catastrophic event. For my first research essay which is the I-Search, we are required to select up to five possible reasons that lead up to an Apocalyptic event. I am very excited to find out more about what can cause this to occur. Although this paper takes much research and dedication, I am shooting for an A+ on this first paper. We will see how everything goes and will keep updates on how the paper is going. So far I have written the first couple of parts of this paper: The What I know, The What I Want to know, and The presentation for my possible reasons.

Overall that was just my introduction, the central meat of this blog is to describe the summary of one of the Required Reading Texts that we will  go over in class. The selected readings are to enhance our understandings of the Apocalyptic events. Each of the authors have a perspective on how the world might end in doom. The one book that interests me the most is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The story describes about that an Apocalyptic event had occurred leaving a father and his young son surviving. They travel long distances to the South Coast to find any means of survival. At the end the father dies of illness leaving the son behind. Eventually the son finds another surviving family in the South Coast and life of humanity begins once again.

I am excited to see how this class will proceed on, I am enjoying Mr. Bevill teaching and sharing similar interests. I look forward to a wonderful semester.