Resistance In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road

A man refusing to give into the temptation of the world around him and not wanting to become one of the “bad people,” is the focus of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This idea is a perfect example of the idea of resistance, or the idea of not giving into the pressures of life and the surrounding environment. Throughout the book, the man shows some of the strongest resistance to not only lose himself to the desolate wasteland the world has become, but to protect the innocence of his young son, and likewise, I too have had to deal with the feelings and emotions that come with the loss of a loved one.
The Road can be simply summarized as the story of a father and his young son having to take a journey across a barren and bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape. …show more content…
His resistance of these evils is something I can relate to the most in my life. My world got turned upside down when I was a little girl, and along with that came many evils rushing into my life. My father was hit by a train and immediately killed when I was only ten years old. Because I was so young, everyone felt that I would not understand, and that it wouldn’t affect me as long as they didn’t tell me anything other than he has gone to a better place. I, like the man, had many evils rushing into my life. These evils tried to convince me that I was alone, lost, that there was no good in this world because my father was taken from me. The biggest and hardest evil that I had to deal with was the feeling that I was so messed up and damaged that I couldn’t go on without my father in my life. I had to resist those temptations and the only way I was able to do that was to protect someone else, much like the man, who was able to resist the evils in his world because he was protecting the purity and soul of someone he loved. These are the same reasons I was able to resist the evils that kept eating away at me. For the man, his reasons were his son, but for me, my reasons were my mother. I couldn’t let this cause my mother to be alone and find herself facing the same evils that I was. I felt that I had to protect her from anything and everything that could hurt her, so I

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