Faith And Conflict In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road

God will always be there to protect you therefore, you should not be afraid. God will be there to deliver you from all threatening occurrences in your life. David proceeds with “When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.” In the first part

Even after this conflict, we still get a sense of what carrying the fire really means: having faith and trust even in the most dire

Goodman Brown understands what he is doing is against his faith and is sinful but he believes his faith will watch over him and bring him back safely. Throughout the forest Goodman Brown’s faith has been tested over and over as he has came across the dark figures telling him to come with him and Goodman Brown stayed true to his faith. Goodman Brown tells the dark figure “having kept my covenant by meeting thee here, it is my purpose now to return when I came. I have scruples, touching the matter thou worst of”. The scruples and purpose both are relating to him staying true to his faith.

“Cormac McCarthy 's novel The Road stages the same problem of belief from the inside, but The Road is unique in locating the basis for meaning in the father 's love for his son, and even suggesting that this meaning transcends the father 's efforts to affirm and protect his son 's life.”. (Schaub) The man finds an unexplainable will to live and is constantly trying to keep himself and his son alive. He truly cares about his son and will do anything for him. The man’s love for his son has made him do things he could never imagine doing.

The boy has a heart of gold, he’s always concerned about other people; whether it’s people who want to help the man and him or want to harm them. No matter what the boy will always find an excuse to help others. This is one of the reasons why he is considered to be a symbol. The boy is the last hope for this ruined

This is where the main character battles with thoughts against himself. Luke Ripley seems to be a satisfied man in his life, but he hates the weary drudgery associated with the life itself. Luke is standing with his faith. However, the faith he is standing with, endangers him, making his home confused.

The man believes it is his duty to keep “God’s own firedrake” (31) of hope and goodness safe from the physical, mental, and emotional horrors of the godforsaken world. However, the man and his wife cannot protect the boy from all pain and do hurt the boy whether it be physically, mentally, or emotionally with good intentions. McCarthy exhibits the underlying theme throughout The Road that it is sometimes better to hurt loved ones in order to help them through diction,

Abner Snopes tells his son that he has to be loyal to his family or he is going to end up alone. This cause a dilemma for Sarty because he was to be loyal to his father, but he wants to do the right thing with the court of law. The development of the character changes was gradual and obvious to the reader. When Sarty saw De Sapin maison represents a better life. Abner Snopes would abuse his son and one particular moment Sarty realize that he did not want to live in fear with his father rules.

The text is “explaining” what it means to love God; it states one needs to follow, fear, obey, and serve God, as well as keep His commandments. The text also explains how the consequences of sinners should be carried out; it states they should be “put to death”, “stoned to death”, and to put the “[sinners] of the town to the sword”.

The experiences have profoundly affected him in a way that he cannot verbalize the hardships he has endured (LitCharts). Paul was estranged to his own life, not recognizing people, not being able to do things as he use to, and no longer being able to fit his old clothes. “I know them all still, I remember arranging them in order. I implore them with my eyes: Speak to me –take me up –take me, Life of my Youth… A terrible feeling of foreignness suddenly rises up in me, I cannot find my way back” (Remarque, 272).

(65). For the man, his killing is justified because it was committed in the act of saving his son, a responsibility he says was assigned to him by the god. Throughout the entire journey, the man does not kill out of malice or for food. He only hurts others when they have threatened the boy 's survival. We can tell that in order to ensure the boy’s safety, his father can do anything to protect his kid.

A quality such as determination is necessary in order to succeed in a survival situation. If a person decides to give up and quit trying, they will inevitably fail. Kennedy’s story of survival after being stranded on an island exists because he “was still unwilling to admit that things were hopeless” even though the other men were losing hope (Hersey 6). It was essential to their survival that Kennedy persevered over a number of days and through intense physical challenges and kept trying to get help. If he had given up they probably would have died.

They encountered a man on the road that had been struck by lightning and was also suffering from starvation. The boy wanted to turn back and help the wounded stranger, but the man had to explain to the boy that they did not have enough of anything to share with him (McCarthy 49-52). They barely had enough to take care of themselves, and if they gave away anything that they had, they would be more likely to starve. It was a decision between their own lives and others’. There was also another occasion where the man and boy were on the beach and were robbed of most of their belongings (McCarthy).

The Road by Cormac McCarthy tells the story of a father and his son in an unspecified apocalypse. In the colorless and dreary post-apocalyptic world the man and his boy must survive on what scraps they can find left over from the old world to survive their journey south down a long road to the coast hoping to find a better future for themselves there. On the road, the man and the boy encounter other survivors most of whom are cannibals, remnants from the pre-apocalyptic world, and supplies and scraps they use to sustain themselves in their dreary world. This quest, marked with fortunes and misfortunes, ends in both success and failure for the father-son duo. Even though man and child both make it to the coast, they find it to be no different

His reluctance to lead and his weak determination to fulfill his role as the guide of the Israelites to the Promised Land make him unworthy leader. He does not have a resolution of his own and he greatly relies on God for instructions. This in itself can be an indicator of Moses’s bad leadership because without God’s guidance, Moses is unable to properly lead his people. Moses relies greatly on God’s words, feeling lost without them. There are many instances throughout Moses’s journey towards the Promised Land where he asks God for instructions on how to lead his people.