More Help With The Road

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/447754/summary

http://search.proquest.com/docview/198091990?pq-origsite=gscholar

This article will help with any questions dealing with God or religion in the novel.

"Yet, in The Road, the question of redemption returns, with allusions to biblical prophets and to the boy as a messianic figure. Three paragraphs into the book, McCarthy conveys the father's thoughts: "Then he just sat there holding his binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: if he is not the word of God God never spoke" (4). The question, however, is: how are we to interpret this language within the context of a world that has collapsed? The context is critical here. How do we read images such as the breath of God and the messianic references to the boy after the end of the world? This is a persisting and unavoidable dilemma for readers of The Road - the moment you think redemption, you encounter its impossibility - the ending has already happened."

Essay 3

3pages, double spaced, MLA Guidelines

DUE THURSDAY Dec 12th

Pick one of the following topics and be sure to use TWO RELIEABLE OUTSIDE SOURCES!

http://eng215fall16.blogspot.com/

The Road

1) One man they meet on the road says "There is no God and we are his prophets." What does he mean by this? Explain the role of God and faith in The Road. As always, use direct references to the text as your proof.

2) Describe the relationship between the boy and his father.  What do they feel for each other? How do they maintain their affection for and faith in each other in such brutal conditions? How do they support each other during the tougher times of the novel?

3) What does The Road ultimately suggest about good and evil? What separates the “good guys” from the “bad guys”? How do we as readers know this?

4) Use the idea that the boy is symbolic of a religious figure or “the one” and explain how his role changes over the course of the novel.

5) Compare any of the themes we’ve discussed at length when looking at these post-apocalyptic novels to what we see in the The Road. Maybe compare how the characters in The Road and Blindness react similarly or in different ways to the breakdown of society. Or the psychological effects seen on the main characters in The Road and The Drowned World. You can come up with your own ideas here—just run it by me.

More on The Road

This is an article on The Road and "The Allegory of the Cave"

tp://journals.tdl.org/cormacmccarthy/index.php/cormacmccarthy/article/view/852/616


More about The Road
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/review/Kennedy.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/mccarthy_road.html

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n02/philip-connors/crenellated-heat

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2639&context=etd

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/013_04/499

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/013_04/499

http://network.bepress.com/explore/arts-and-humanities/english-language-and-literature/literature-in-english-north-america/?facet=publication_facet%3A%22Cormac+McCarthy+Conference%22

The Road

http://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=fcas_fp

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/553396/swartzZachary.pdf

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1031/survival-and-morality-in-cormac-mccarthys-the-road-exploring-aquinian-grace-and-the-boy-as-messiah

NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/review/Kennedy.t.html?pagewanted=all

http://blog.mattmecham.com/2007/05/29/cormack-mccarthy-the-road/

Hope:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dont-delay/200805/coping-and-procrastination-the-role-hope

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CGoQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swarthmore.edu%2FSocSci%2Fbschwar1%2Fpitfalls.pdf&ei=5epxT-OyKoPC0QGIlOWgAQ&usg=AFQjCNHKErPOuXD1lgCFc7gjizHGBkt_jg&sig2=Iz-GAe8EOtNQLnsdv7Ws9g

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joyce-mcfadden/the-psychology-of-hope-an_b_141856.html

This is an article on The Road and "The Allegory of the Cave"

tp://journals.tdl.org/cormacmccarthy/index.php/cormacmccarthy/article/view/852/616


More about The Road
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/review/Kennedy.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/mccarthy_road.html

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n02/philip-connors/crenellated-heat

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2639&context=etd

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/013_04/499

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/013_04/499

http://network.bepress.com/explore/arts-and-humanities/english-language-and-literature/literature-in-english-north-america/?facet=publication_facet%3A%22Cormac+McCarthy+Conference%22

"The Mule" in African American Literature--The Bluest Eye

http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1137&context=honors

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Pe4W0-QQdvsC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=mule+in+african+american+female+characters&ots=pj-4vEOHIk&sig=5b1Z0gsXFfXcdrONBXh3RJIdXyE#v=onepage&q=mule%20in%20african%20american%20female%20characters&f=false

http://ijellh.com/ecofeminist-reading-toni-morrisons-the-bluest-eye/

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6935&context=etd

http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1477932641146~346

The Bluest Eye

Outside Sources for The Bluest Eye

http://www.piedmont.k12.ca.us/phs/pdf/library/bluesteye.pdf

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3041475?sid=21105298936851&uid=3739808&uid=3739256&uid=4&uid=2

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3041932?sid=21105298936851&uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=3739808&uid=4

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Morrison.htm

http://www.articlemyriad.com/literary-analysis-bluest-eye-toni-morrison-history-slavery/

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/11/home/morrison-bluest.html

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/publications/37.2.bump.html

Article on The role of black dolls in American culture:

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/28/addy-walker-american-girl/

Here is a collection of sources that could be useful:

http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/tips/t4prod/bisguier/resourcespage.htm

http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/bluest.htm

The rape scene with Cholly:

http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&context=undergrad_rev

More on The Great Gatsby

This link discusses some random facts about the novel and the writer:

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/07/gatsby_facts.php

The Wire breaks down The Great Gatsby (There is some strong language here):

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ithe_wirei_breaks_down_ithe_great_gatsbyi_f_scott_fitzgeralds_classic_criticism_of_america_nsfw.html

Footage of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/rare_footage_of_scott_and_zelda_fitzgerald_from_the_1920s.html

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/THE GREAT GATSBY

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=the%20great%20gatsby

Race and The Great Gatsby:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/rise-of-the-colored-empires/276844/

https://www.uscupstate.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Research/Reseach_Journal/006_ARTICLE5_2009.pdf

http://flavorwire.com/391193/the-complicated-and-troubling-role-of-race-and-class-in-baz-luhrmanns-Gatsby

https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/why-i-believe-that-jay-gatsby-was-black/153166.article