Group assignment #1: Compare The Road to other post-apocalyptic books/movies
I am nowhere near as educated about
this topic as some of my group members are. I’ve seen 2012, the Day After
Tomorrow, I am Legend, the Book of Eli, etc and I read a series that would fit
into that group when I was younger. But those are basically what I’m comparing the Road to.
The
Road is different from all of those movies because of how it’s timed. At the beginning of the
book, the reader isn’t dropped into mass chaos. There is no major crisis that
the characters are dealing with. The world has already ended and now the only
issue is survival. Despite it being a transient world, this book had a feeling
of calm. Everything seemed to have its place. This is a weird concept, but
that’s what it felt like. The dead people had been dead for a while, the
cannibals had a system worked out and the boy and his dad knew what they were
doing. They had settled into this routine from years of walking on the road.
Also this book is different because
the reader doesn’t know what caused this grey state. There was no accident,
natural disaster, zombie attack, massive nuclear/chemical warfare, or anything
like that, unlike most other post-apocalyptic books/movies.
It’s never specifically stated why the Earth is so desolate
and hopeless. That was different for me. I kept thinking that the dad would
have a flashback, to the day that everything went crazy. I was waiting and
waiting for that to happen…it never did. For all I know the Earth could have
just died, getting more and more barren to the point where there weren’t enough
resources to sustain everyone. Whatever the case, that aspect of the book is
completely left up to the reader’s imagination.
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