1. God and Morality in The Road
This character resembles the Old Testament prophet Elijah in certain ways (see Snyder 81). Cormac McCarthy Journal Fall 2010 1 Elijah predicted a drought (1 Kings 17:1); Ely says he knew that the catastrophe (or something like it) was coming ""I always believed in it " (McCarthy 168). ... Great suffering appears to constitute evidence against the existence of a loving God, but it also has the capacity to Cormac McCarthy Journal Fall 2010 2 produce or strengthen belief in such a God. ... After she leaves to kill herself, the man concedes that "she was right. ...
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