The Road by: Cormac McCarthy

PLOT: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the gather and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

MY OPINION: This is our November book for the Ladybug book club. The club hasn’t decided whether or not to watch the movie when it comes out this month. The book didn’t break down in chapters so it seemed like it took me forever to read. The book was very depressing, no hope for the boy and his father. I loved how the father never got upset with the boy when he would make mistakes along the way. He was always calm and never showed frustration.

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