Thankful, for a Classmate... shoosh no!

     Gah, that awesome 5th period class period, full of outspoken, intelligent young men and women. A few people in the class always keep me amused though, so in a way i'm thankful for them. The class goes like" McCarthy: "blah blah blah *insert very thoughtful discussion question*".... Sohrob: "blah blah blah *insert snazzy comment*"... then EVERYONES FAVORITE Kirk: "blah blah blah... you know back in 500 BC the Roman catholic church blah blah blah".... then these two go back in forth on every single topic, then close to the end Kirk says a controversial religious state and then DARVISHA! comes in: "You know actually Kirk blah blah blah church blah blah *bell rings* *Kirk in Darvisha walks out of class debating*" LOL our English class is pretty interesting. Well these are the classmates that amuse me HAHAHA :). You guys make the class what it is now.

Cormac McCarthy

     One major theme in Cormac McCarthy's novel the road is the father son relationship, in which i touched upon in an earlier Blog. It's weird that "the man" and "the boy" in the novel was actually Cormac, and his son. Within the road the boy asked the man about dying and are they going to die and these conversations were actual conversations that McCarthy and his son had. When you think about the road, they were in an apocalyptic state so the boy asking about death was somewhat common or made sense, but McCarthy's son asking "Papa, what would you do if I died?" in a time like this is somewhat odd. It seems as if McCarthy is saying that the world we're in now is in a somewhat apocalyptic state also. which connects back to the poem Dinosauria, we where Charles Bukowski describes how the world would one day be in a similar condition as the world the man and boy live in, within the road. Now the questions is what could McCarthy's son have experienced to say something that a child within a destroyed world would ask to his dad, or is our world how it is now in an apocalyptic state already. Maybe our sons, and daughters and sisters, and brothers are already being brought up in a world where they find the need to ask their parents... "are we going to die?"  or "Papa, what would you do if I died?". Well, How Do YOU Like Those Apples?