The Road That By Cormac Mccarthy

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The road that is written by Cormac McCarthy, an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize, and it takes place over the apocalyptic risky world. McCarthy shows how the woman, the man wife, plays important role in the man thinking and dreaming, so he makes the reader understand the way of the woman thinking and situations that she experienced. The woman does not want to keep her baby, the boy, in the beginning because she felt scary from the dangerous world. It is hard for any woman to think about bot keeping her baby, but in the woman situation it could be understandable why she does not want to keep the baby. The woman experiences the lack of foods and waters, and she does not want her baby to experience the worst. The woman

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