Reading In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road
For as long as I can remember, I have found reading to be tedious for the most part. I felt reading was something appealing only to teachers as a vehicle to improve our literacy and comprehension skills. As I grew up reading the assigned chapter books, I found they stood as hurdles for me to jump before I could return to my regular schedule of video games and mindless television. These books never established any significant conflict or brought forth tension; so I became overtaken with indifference. I had no interest in reading as it held no special significance to me at all.
One day everything I had ever thought about books and reading changed. That day appeared as any other day of my senior year. The first class of the day was advanced English. I walked through the door and sat down, conversed with my fellow classmates, and stayed oblivious to the lesson of the day. My senioritis had me fully in its grasp; as I halfheartedly paid attention to the lesson. I had no way of knowing a book would change my views of reading forever. This exceptional book was Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
The first surprise was when I read the prologue I discovered, to my delight, that The Road was post-apocalyptic. I was already partial to the post disaster stories Hollywood supplies. I enjoyed realistic scenarios of natural disasters or …show more content…
I have followed this book by reading two more of his works, Outer Dark and Blood Meridian. I plan to continue my adventures as I read all of his highly, critically acclaimed books. McCarthy’s writing transcended anything I had witnessed before as his archaic, dark and often cryptic word use reached out to me. Most people would not take to a book that often would send you in search of a dictionary, but I found that I favored this challenge. I found that I enjoyed learning new words and the use of them in
One day everything I had ever thought about books and reading changed. That day appeared as any other day of my senior year. The first class of the day was advanced English. I walked through the door and sat down, conversed with my fellow classmates, and stayed oblivious to the lesson of the day. My senioritis had me fully in its grasp; as I halfheartedly paid attention to the lesson. I had no way of knowing a book would change my views of reading forever. This exceptional book was Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
The first surprise was when I read the prologue I discovered, to my delight, that The Road was post-apocalyptic. I was already partial to the post disaster stories Hollywood supplies. I enjoyed realistic scenarios of natural disasters or …show more content…
I have followed this book by reading two more of his works, Outer Dark and Blood Meridian. I plan to continue my adventures as I read all of his highly, critically acclaimed books. McCarthy’s writing transcended anything I had witnessed before as his archaic, dark and often cryptic word use reached out to me. Most people would not take to a book that often would send you in search of a dictionary, but I found that I favored this challenge. I found that I enjoyed learning new words and the use of them in