Plato's+Allegory+of+the+Cave

A. //The Road // style and structure i. What are the most distinctive features of McCarthy’s writing style? ii. How does this screenshot capture McCarthy’s writing style?
 * //The Road //** **by Cormac McCarthy **
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iii. Consider a novel/play were structure was important in conveying meaning. In small groups discuss how the texts structure is significant to understanding the novel as a whole. B. How does McCarthy use pre-existing disasters and also anticipate contempory calamities? · Try and note one previous to 2006, and one post the novels publication · What do you think McCarthy is saying about America’s religious right?

C. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in //The Road// · What is Plato’s allegory of the cave? · How does it relate to //The Road//? Key extract from Section 1 of the novel: 
 * Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, oblivion and guidance in McCarthy’s //The Road// **

“Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours of the days of it and the years without cease. Until they stood in a great stone room where lay a black and ancient lake. And on the far shore a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders. It swung its head low over the water as if to take the scent of what it could not see. Crouching there pale and naked and translucent, its alabaster bones cast up in shadow on the rocks behind it. Its bowels, its beating heart. The brain that pulsed in a dull glass bell. It swung its head from side to side and then gave out a low moan and turned and lurched away and loped soundlessly into the dark.”