WRITING RESPONSE #3
Consider the following overview of the novel thus far. Respond to any point(s) of this description with your thoughts of the novel up to this point (page 150) in your reading.
Both the father and son are surrounded by an ongoing nightmare, frightened by others when they sleep. They are always starving, always cautiously alert, only having a grocery cart with a few blankets, and a gun with two bullets, either to protect against the cannibalistic humanity following their tracks or for the father to finish their lives before despair consumes them both.
As they journey to the coast in search of something, the father tells the boy it is better to have nightmares because when you start dreaming, you know the end is near. McCarthy allows the reader to dream for the father and son, striving on with them until a fate that whispers, under the pain and futility, of a source of origin that is older than the ever- looming destruction of the world.
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