Blues And Greys

The Road by Cormac McCarthy portrays the nothingness and lack of hope in society. The view of a destructor World is an universal theme. His novel incorporates “hope” as a major idea in which the boy and father struggle to survive. McCarthy says, “Barren, silent, godless” (pg 2) alluding to the common fear people feel when being lonely and uncertain, usually associated to the lack of a deity. This, is often used as a critic to search for a higher being in moments of destruction. How humans feel tiny when they realize that nature or modernism are stronger forces than us.

The Road is a painting done by pen, crayon, chalk, blues and greys. It has a strong use of emotions evoked by the kid’s questions answered by his father with negative and yet positive predictions. McCarthy says, “Are we going to die? Sometime. Not now” (page 5).