It is essential you recognise Cormac McCarthy's crafting of sentences in "The Road". Read the following extract out loud, pay attention to the sounds of the words and the rhythm of the writing.
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
Yes I am, he said. I am the one.
Tomatoes, peaches, beans, apricots. Canned hams. Corned beef.
Are we still the good guys, he said.
We should go, Papa, he said. Yes, the man said. But he didn't.
The snow fell nor did it cease to fall.
Okay? Okay.
They sat on the edge of the tub and pulled their shoes on and them he handed the boy the pan and soap and he took the stove and the little bottle of gas and the pistol and wrapped in their blankets and they went back across the yard to the bunker.
Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth.
She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
What does these extracts tells us about;
- the type of novel it might be (the genre/s it seems to draw on or fit with)
- the story (what might happen)
- themes (the ideas it might raise)
- characters and relationships
- the way the story might be told.
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