Aspects of Narrative:
Setting
Time and Sequence
AO2- Time within the story, form and structure
AO4- Context
The Road's context is important to show why they are on a road as it is said that the story has to be influenced by surrounding context.
In victorian times the settings were different and people viewed things from a different perspective (candles. horses, marraige etc.) Whereas modern day such as Sci-Fi invloves future catastprophe and different views much like in The Road.
Time for the Road doesn't follow a chronological order as there are points in the story where the main character remembers his past and goes into flashbacks.
Flashback
Timescale
In the future where all has been destroyed and the boy and the man are trying to survive and get to the beach.
Chronological
Storyline follows non-linear narrative with images of flashbacks.
Time
The time is what drives the narrative and is significant as it is set in the future where the stroy is told in between years and the reader can make out that it has been a couple of months since the boy and the man are travelling. McCarthy has no intention of keeping track of time as there is catastrophe struck and there is no need for order. The timescale is not too evident although we can tell that it's not over a long period of time and as readers we tend to ask why. The time drives the novel forward and creates emphasis on the fact that the man hasn't got long to survive. The pace tarvels fast and slow depending on where the characters are for example when they're in the mountains the man says it seems like time hasn't gone past and they've been stuck there. However it can also be argued that the man's death is the slowest.
End
Ends on an assorted notes where its both sad and relieving
AO4- Context
The Road's context is important to show why they are on a road as it is said that the story has to be influenced by surrounding context.
In victorian times the settings were different and people viewed things from a different perspective (candles. horses, marraige etc.) Whereas modern day such as Sci-Fi invloves future catastprophe and different views much like in The Road.
Time for the Road doesn't follow a chronological order as there are points in the story where the main character remembers his past and goes into flashbacks.
Flashback
- The man re-calls his past of when he was a little boy and his time spent with his uncle. ( First section)
- He again re-calls of when refugees wore masks and goggles and sat along the sides of the road.
- Dreams of his dead wife and when she used to be ill.
- Remembers the birth of his son
Timescale
In the future where all has been destroyed and the boy and the man are trying to survive and get to the beach.
Chronological
Storyline follows non-linear narrative with images of flashbacks.
Time
The time is what drives the narrative and is significant as it is set in the future where the stroy is told in between years and the reader can make out that it has been a couple of months since the boy and the man are travelling. McCarthy has no intention of keeping track of time as there is catastrophe struck and there is no need for order. The timescale is not too evident although we can tell that it's not over a long period of time and as readers we tend to ask why. The time drives the novel forward and creates emphasis on the fact that the man hasn't got long to survive. The pace tarvels fast and slow depending on where the characters are for example when they're in the mountains the man says it seems like time hasn't gone past and they've been stuck there. However it can also be argued that the man's death is the slowest.
- '5 days without food'
- '3 days the boy spends mourning his father's death'
End
Ends on an assorted notes where its both sad and relieving
Characters and Charecterisation
A character is not real they are always fictional. A creation of a novelist or storywriter. All characters have names to give them an identity or to have them carry a great deal of significance and some names have hidden meanings which are called apocryphal. A book called Revelations by John explains the apocryphal aspect names have.
John Goodman- Good man ( Apocryphal)
Lennie Small- Ironic
Characters in The Road:
All these character's titles depends on who's reffering to who. Society been damaged beyond repair so names not needed.
John Goodman- Good man ( Apocryphal)
Lennie Small- Ironic
Characters in The Road:
- The Father or as the boy calls him 'Papa'.
- The boy
- The Wife
- The man (Cannibal)
- The man from the family at the end
- The good guys + the bad guys
- The thief
- Little boy
All these character's titles depends on who's reffering to who. Society been damaged beyond repair so names not needed.