On May 14, 2013, Joe Fassler interviewed Benjamin Percy, the author of Red Moon. In the interview, Percy expresses his admiration towards McCarthy and how he writes his stories and is "constantly in awe of the language and recognizing how he's putting together his sentences so exquisitely." Percy claims that the scariest part of The Road is when the father and boy go to the house and find the room filled with humans that are being harvested for food. We agree with this statement, because of, as Percy stated, the suspenseful way McCarthy draws out the scene. McCarthy avoids the cellar where the people are held for as long as he can. He has the father go around the house and describe the clothing and a bed to show that there is someone who lives at that house. The audience and characters now know that there is someone living in that house; yet, the father still goes around the house, searching. When the father gets to the cellar, he opens the shut door, and "the whole time we're yelling: Don't go in there. But he does, of course." As the man and the boy are staring into the cellar in horror, the people who are living in that house come back. The suspenseful, drawn out scene that McCarthy creates, as well as the close encounter with the other people, had our hearts pounding in our chest as we read the scene. Out of all the other scenes that McCarthy wrote, we all agree that this part of the story was the scariest, as we were unsure of the outcome, but positive of the impending fear that would present itself in the house. The fear that McCarthy creates in this scene, reminds us of the divide between the man and the boy's sense of danger as well as reminding us of the darkest aspects of the methods that people were driven to in these desperate times.
Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/cormac-mccarthys-i-the-road-i-may-have-the-scariest-passage-in-all-of-literature/275834/
Biblography:
- Fassler, Joe. "Cormac McCarthy's The Road May Have the Scariest Passage in All of Literature." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 14 May 2013. Web. 01 June 2014. <http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/cormac-mccarthys-i-the-road-i-may-have-the- scariest-passage-in-all-of-literature/275834/>.
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