Dear Cormac McCarthy
I loved your novel, The Road. It’s refreshing yet depressing interpretation of the apocalypse really appealed to me. So much of post-apocalyptic fiction only gets its appeal due to being sci-fi or fantasy. The characters are often unrealistic and neither the story nor the characters make you think. I am happy to say I did not have those problems with The Road.
The Road didn’t show a large amount of survivors banding together to overcome the harsh conditions provided by their post-apocalyptic world but instead it showed 2 survivors who seem to be the only good people left in the world. This is refreshing when most of the post apocalyptic fiction that I have read only shows the first interpretation that I mentioned. It’s more realistic to have a great majority of evil human beings than scared and noble human beings because historically we have done more evil things than good things to each other.
I did have a few questions however. Can you tell me a little more about the circumstances and mythology the boy and the man faced? For example, I was unsure if most forms of food were destroyed or was it just agriculture and livestock were destroyed so stored forms of food could still be around. Also, what are some of the theories that caused this apocalypse and what were the events that characterized this apocalypse in the road? I am curious to what the people in the novel thought may have caused this and I am curious to know what is unique about the Road’s version of the apocalypse.
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