Dear Cynthia and Alexia,
Well I was finished with the book a while ago and I'm glad that you all finally finished. But yes isn't the end horrible. I knew all along that the father was going to die. Cormac Mcarthy gave a lot of foreshadowing leading onto the father's death. I saw it coming I knew it from the start. But what I thought was that they were going to turn into cannibals in the end, but they don't. It's a Shakespere tragic even though Shakespere didn't write it. I hated the fact that the father left the boy alone. After all the heartache that they went through and after all the pain that they endured he just dies. I think it was because when he was looking for food and happened to run into the flame gun and was in the water. I think that's what triggered his death. I would have been happier if the son would have died. Then the father would have nothing to live for and he could die all on his own. Things would have been a lot better that way. At least I think they would have been a lot better. Also Cormac Mccarthy does and incredible job of telling a story. It doesn't bother me that he doesn't put quotation marks or barely puts in periods. It took me a while to get used to, but when I finally did it made the story better.
- Sincerely,
Ana Hernandez
1 comment:
I found the book to be a complete thriller because like you said it has a lot of forshadowing and it takes a while to get use to. I would have also liked the boy to die first instead of the father because it would have been easier for the father to get through life than the boy to get through everything alone, well not entierly alone but without the father. I really do hope the people that were with the boy weren't cannibals. You hate the fact that he did that when in fact he had no control over it what so ever. He had no medication or anything like that to save him. I love how Cormac McCarthy has you picturing the story instad of just having to read the book and not be able to imagine it at all. It is books like this that I like to read because I don't like to read books if I can't picture them, there is no fun in that. Over all I think this was an amazing book. I would recommend it entierly.
Sincerely yours,
Alexia Rodriguez
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