Criticisms on The Road

B. Criticisms on The Road

There are some criticisms that arise toward Cormac McCarthy and his work, The Road. Criticisms are used to help the readers understand the novel so that they can get a better insight about the analyzed novel. McCarthy, one of the greatest American science fiction authors, has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Old Men, and The Road. In his interview with The New York Times, McCarthy reveals that he prefers literature works that deal with issues of life and death, http:query.nytimes.comgstfullpage.html?res=9E0CE6DA163EF93AA25757C0A96495 8260sec=spon=pagewanted=3 accessed on 28 June 2007 at 9.44 am. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road was published in 2006. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007 and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club Selection. In The Road, McCarthy presents a post-apocalyptic American tale of survival and unfailing hope as a man and his son journey through the ruins of utter devastation. This novel is about the strong spirit of human beings in solving their life problems. According to New Stateman, a United Kingdom current affair magazine, in the introduction page of The Road, the novel is very dazzling and interesting. A gripping, heart-rending human story, which explores the depths of despair and savagery beside the heights of love, tenderness and self-sacrifice. McCarthy has delivered a master stroke: this tale is beautiful, hypnotic, and terrifying real. While Oprah Winfrey said that the novel is both gripping and inspiring because it explores the severe destructiveness, desperate tenacity and tremendous tenderness capable within human civilization. It can grab the readers from the first sentence http:www.spokesmanreview.comapstory.asp?AP_ID=D8PIRE4G0 accessed on 9 June 2007 at 12.07 pm. In an interview with her, McCarthy said that the inspiration of writing The Road came during a visit to El Paso with his young son. He imagined how the city PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI might look like in the future; his mind pictured chaos on earth and thoughts about his son. He only wrote initial notes but did not develop that idea until several years later. McCarthy eventually finished The Road, that he dedicated it to his son, John Francis McCarthy.

C. Theoretical Framework