Thursday, June 6, 2013

Keeping the Characters Nameless

One of the main things that our group talked about was the fact that the characters in The Road were kept nameless. They were only referred to as the man and the boy. For a while I have been thinking about why the author would do this. I think that if he gave the characters names it would have distracted us from the main purpose of the novel. The purpose being to understand the father and the son's relationship with each other and how they dealt with the situation that they are in. Maybe because they don't have names we can connect with the characters more because certain names are associated with certain personalities. All of this is speculation of course and I'd be very interested in talking to Cormac McCarthy to see what he has to say on this topic.

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