Literary Adventure discussion

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy combines several genres. Goodreads top shelves include science fiction, apocalyptic, post apocalyptic, dystopia and horror. Do you think it fits any one genre? Does The Road rise above genre, or not?

2. The father is nameless in The Road, but McCarthy describes the setting in great detail. Why did McCarthy do this, and how does the contrast affect the book?

3. Why doesn't McCarthy describe the disaster? Would it change how you thought about the novel and its characters?

4. Did you find The Road too violent? Was the violence necessary to illustrate the story?

1. I would say its a combo, but post- apocalyptic fits with me. The movie was definitely a horror and added to the dread of it.

2. The environment was so much of a factor, almost a character itself, the father also a victim. Never thought this way before.

3. I thought I got enough about the disaster. But it was post, so the reader didn't get to "live" through it. I understood it to be about environmental change, ash killing everything. How sad no birds, etc. but some hope at the end. Wow to think of the human race having to try & recover afterwards.

4. It describes a violent world, but wasn't overly done or graphic. The movie showed a tiny bit, but that was enough, ha.