This week, reading The Road was a mixture of happiness and sadness combined. The man and the boy of course have had some problems while walking down the road. But some things made their life a whole bunch easier. The man found an old air raid shelter with a bunch of food in it. They took most of the food and lived in their for a little bit. But then they got back in the murk and back to the road. Their cart was fasten with grommets to keep the stuff down in it. But it seems they ran out of food quickly. They seemed to have food but then they back kind of emaciated when they started to run out of food again. To make things even worse, the man got a fever which made him sick even more! I could predict a very bad future for the man and the boy for the rest of the book.
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I think the good qualities of hero are, protective, heroic, and, very caring. Lets take example of the man in the book I'm reading, The Road. He is very protective over the boy, he has been very caring to the boy, and he has saved the boy multiple times. Another example is Quote from Cave Story (A video game). Quote is protective about his friends, saves his friends from the world almost ending, and caring for Curly, his companion.
All heroes have these qualities I believe. Odysseus has all these traits and many other heroes have these traits. So I believe this is what I think of a hero! We are reading The Road in Honors English class and I was amazed at how sad and depressing the the tone is. Cormac McCarthy's language in this story is very depressing and sad in this story. He doesn't use simple terms like bushes or trees, he actually uses a real plant name for that specific thing. For example, instead of bush he calls it a bracken, which is a fancier word for bush but just the term makes it seem more depressing since he doesn't use a simpler term. Some other things that helps with McCarthy's language that affects the tone is the setting. Just how he describes the setting gives me some chills. Like a tractor with a trailer attached to it was jackknifed sideways across the bridge and how they had feel their way down the dark embankment just makes the atmosphere for this story is just chilling for me to read. So McCarthy's language is really chilling and depressing, so the tone is very easy for the reader to find in this depressing book.
In my school lately, we have been reading The Odyssey in class for the past couple of weeks and I want to talk about it a little bit. The reason it has survived in high schools for so long is how people can relate to it in a good or bad way. This story has many things that may have been good back in 750 B.C. But now those things may be considered a bad thing. Like how Odysseus stayed with Circe for a while, Odysseus may have...what is an appropriate word..."slept" with her. Which is bad in the present world when you are married to someone. But back then it was okay to do such a thing as long your wife didn't know. Also how to overcome temptation, like how Odysseus overcame the problem with the Sirens. Odysseus overcame it by tying himself to the sail post of the boat so he doesn't go towards them. This little section tells us that we need tie ourselves up so we don't get tempted to do a certain bad thing. We don't physically tie ourselves up but try to stay away from those tempting things that can destroy our lives. I'm going to wrap this up, so in conclusion there are many examples of life lessons or things about life back then that is in The Odyssey. This is why this story has been in high schools for so long.
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