The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel about a nameless father and son who are traveling to the coast in the south. ... Cormac McCarthy is an American writer known for stylistically complex novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian. ... "The Road was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006 and, in 2007, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ... Cormac McCarthy presents a lot of what is happening in his life in "The Road". ... In "The Road", Cormac McCarthy also exhibits his perspective of the nature of mankind. ...

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The scenery describes an impending doom, from the gloomy forest and winding road, to the graveyards. ... This effectively portrays the family's seclusion on the country roads leading to Florida. ... The detour takes the family down a narrow, winding dirt road. The road itself screams danger as it winds on and on with nothing around. ... After the family rolls into the ditch, they see a vehicle coming toward them from up the road. ...

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The grandmother tells Bailey to take a random dirt road, but this is not the road of the plantation. This is the road the Misfit is traveling on in the near future. The grandmother needs to stop the car so she startles the cat and Bailey runs off the road. ... The family is alone on the side of the dirt road. A suspicious car soon after the crash creeps down the road from a distance and the grandmother stands up waving both her arms dramatically to get the Misfit's attention. ...

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It quotes, "The Dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. ... This quote about the "dragon" relates to the story in that the anonymous ordinary family sets out on a road trip to Florida, and the passengers are consequently "devoured" by the Misfit and his accomplices. ... He finds the family on the side of the road, just as the quote states, "The dragon is by the side of the road..." ... When the day arrives for the family to depart on their road trip, instead of arguing, the grandmother climbs in the car before anyone else, just as June Star predicts. ... After dri...

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It quotes, "The Dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. ... This quote about the "dragon" relates to the story in that the anonymous ordinary family sets out on a road trip to Florida, and the passengers are consequently "devoured" by the Misfit and his accomplices. ... He finds the family on the side of the road, just as the quote states, "The dragon is by the side of the road..." ... When the day arrives for the family to depart on their road trip, instead of arguing, the grandmother climbs in the car before anyone else, just as June Star predicts....

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She did not want to see her babies suffer and slowly die so she forced herself to abandon the girls, not even a year old, on a road with hope of some caring person finding them to give them the life that she felt she could not. ... For three days Suyuan walked hoping to catch a ride to ChungKing but it was impossible because the roads were flooded with fleeing people trying to get rides from passing trucks. ... Extremely exhausted and ill almost to the point of death, Suyuan knew she was going to die and she couldn't care to watch her babies dies with her so she was forced to set them on ...

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He was walking down a road when he meets a trucker at a roadside restaurant. Even though the trucker has a sticker to discourage hitchhikers, he gives Tom a lift to the road where his family, the Joads, lives. While walking down the road, Tom meets up with Jim Casy, the preacher that baptized him. ... While driving down the road the Joads notice some hostility towards Okies, or farmers who left Oklahoma. ...

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The unused road D. ... Speeding down the unknown road to get back to his own way, Bailey crashes the car. If he would have been willing slow down and learn a little about the new way, he could have stayed on the road. ...

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Queen Anne's Lace and Black-Eyed Susans framed the old dirt roads with the beauty that comes with being a wild flower. ... I looked down at the rocky dirt road and began playing a game of "kick the rock" with myself. ... " She pointed about 100 yards down the road. ...

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There was a man who lived down the road from where my grandfather lived. ... One morning, my grandfather and I drove down the road to the neighbor's house to purchase eggs. ... The fishing trips we made together, the restaurants, the road trips to and from church, and oh yes, the morning we rode together and purchased a couple of dozen eggs from the neighbor. ...

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the Reva's Life Story As Reva carefully opened the temple door, she noticed the bright light filter in from the hot afternoon sun. The woman hoped this was a sign that the gates of heaven would open for her (Hinduism). The slight woman placed a small, brightly colored package of food at her feet a...

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When the day arrives for the family to depart on their road trip, instead of arguing, the grandmother climbs in the car before anyone else, just as June Star predicts. ... After driving down the road a while, the family passes a cotton field with five or six graves right in the middle of it. ...

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It was on this bumpy and windy road where ironically the newspaper concealing the cat moves causing Pitty Sing to lurch on Bailey's shoulder resulting in the car being overturned. ... The world is an ever-changing place and it is human nature to follow your own road, whether it be wrong or right. ...

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It was on this bumpy and windy road where ironically the newspaper concealing the cat moves causing Pitty Sing to lurch on Bailey's shoulder resulting in the car being overturned. ... The world is an ever-changing place and it is human nature to follow your own road, whether it be wrong or right. ...

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The car drives through the stunning German countryside on rough roads, but it drives smoothly and carefully with out much stressful effort from the driver. ... The car copes well on the slippery wet roads, stopping effortlessly at traffic lights. ...

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Highway 66 is the main road to California and is filled with migrants, or in other words, "a path of people in flight (128)." ... At sundown on the first day of travel, the Joads turn off the road to camp for the night, when they meet Ivy and Sarah Wilson, a couple from Kansas that is stranded with a broken-down car. ...

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What can be described as a road trip gone wrong, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a tale full of irony and wit. ... If she had never told John Wesley and June Star about the house with the secret panel, they never would have begged to see it and Bailey never would have gone down the bumpy road that caused the accident. ...

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They"d move down the road to another farm where they were needed and appreciated, leaving us shorthanded"(Grisham 75). ... Cowboy took his revenge on Hank by following him down the road when he left and attacking him with the pocketknife he carried with him. ...

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I believe Christy could benefit from a counselor, a psychologist, to help him interpret it (Carolinas Medical Center, Behavioral Services Center, located at Location: 501 Billingsley Road, Charlotte). ... Counselor To help him overcome depression and interpret it (Carolinas Medical Center, Behavioral Services Center, located at Location: 501 Billingsley Road, Charlotte) 2. ...

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Whilst travelling on an isolated road, a rider, speeding past them, eventually falls off his motorbike, and is in a critical condition where he is in a crucial state, bleeding and discouraged to move. ... Albie is slightly afraid, as he is, in the end, still only a boy and he is alone with a stranger who is in a state of shock on a long dark road. ...

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The story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, is one that is relatable to many cultures across the globe. It shows how advice being passed down from mother to daughter is supposed to be beneficial to the daughter's life, and help her with shaping a better future. This story helps to shed light on the cultura...

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The opening scenes of the film Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry, helped introduce me to one of the main themes of the movie; that the realization of one boy's dream will be barred by three different hurdles on the way to achieving his goals. The opening scenes specifically show three differe...

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I believe that eating my mother's lasagna taught me how to appreciate the small things in life. I believe in appreciation of one's family and the time spent together. I believe in perfecting recipes and taking time to get to know the little secrets found in someone else's imperfection. I have alway...

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The development of who we are is a never-ending process. No one experience can makes us who we are; yet somehow we find its events influencing in some small way. Our every action and every thought shape us in some way. Many things have influenced me throughout my life, however four have had the m...

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And if you do decide to take the road like Nnaemeka did the parents have every right to know about it even before you find that someone you'd be willing to sacrifice your beliefs and traditions for. ...

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