5 Reasons Cormac McCarthy's The Road Should Be Taught In Schools
There is a ton of knowledge to be mined from these pages.
Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a work of devastating beauty -- a grim glimpse into a possible future for all of us. It tells the story of a father and son traversing the destroyed landscape years following an unnamed cataclysmic event has put the world to the torch. McCarthy's writing is sparse, on the nose yet hauntingly poetic. He has much to say on what drives mankind to do the things we do. Since the book was released in 2006, very little in our world has changed for the better and often feels as if we are on the precipice of something incredibly dangerous. Maybe it's the perfect time for us to look inward and find what makes ourselves tick. Maybe it's time our teenagers took lessons from a book that could lend them some desperately needed perspective on what life holds for them. This novel isn't only about a time of tragedy and desperation rather, it's a celebration of life and the fire that burns inside all of us -- spurring us on. There is a ton of knowledge to be mined from these pages and I think it's high time our students began to reap the benefits of a book written within the last thirty years.