barricaded by walls of negativity. A time of great pessimism was the Great Depression. The people did not trust in our economy- leaving this “depressing” feeling nationwide. Of course, there is always someone who seeks the positive in the negative. In this example, it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He and his optimistic feelings allowed him to attain his goal of getting the United States out of the depression. In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a father and his son try to make their way to the southern United
Exile, Enrichment and Being at Ease Essay on The Road By Marissa Willette English Honors Seminar Ash filled air and desolate abandoned structures that once were houses or stores scatter the road walked by one man, a father, and a boy, his son. Cormac McCarthy describes a post apocalyptic world where little is known about what happened to the rest of the world outside of the road they travel. The Road written by McCarthy shows the struggles and benefits of traveling with no prosperity, surviving