Thematic Resonance and The Road - Wilson, Brooke
For those who have not read the novel, below is an insightful glimpse into the shrowded realm which has been identified as 'The Road'; through travels along a desolate North American landscape, two surviving souls journey through the burnt wreckage portraying dismal prospects to the future and minimal happiness, along with lacking a prosperous, substantial existense into the corrupted oblivion: “He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.” (McCarthy, 147). What if there was a near-complete breakdown within the complex networks joining humans with one another and with...