Essay --

In this novel the presentation of the father is depicted as a father protect his sons innocence. Its almost as if the piece of music is placed on this planet for one major purpose to protect and keep his son alive. The burnt man passage gives the reader an insight into a world that has absence of culture and civilization in the post-apocalyptic world that both the boy and man inhabit, the role of the boy and the father are further established for the reader and many of the techniques that become typical of McCarthys style in the novel. Structurally the burn down man scene is one of the horrific episodes that occur in the novel and it is the first to take place, foreshadowing, future horrific episodes that will take place subsequently on in the novel. This essay will be exploring these ideas in more depth looking closely at how the father and boy are portrayed in this part of the extract.The passage begins with a typical series of simple sentences describing the boy and the man. t hey went on the boy was crying. He kept looking back McCarthys style of writing mainly consist of short, clear an...