Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Time Traveler's Wife (Blog #9)

How does the author manage her novel's fantastically intricate time scheme? For example, where in her narrative does she relate the same incident from different perspectives in order to supply missing information? How could this work as a foreshadowing technique moving forward?

The Road (Blog #2)

The sardonic blind man named Ely who the man and boy encounter on the road tells the father that "There is no God and we are his prophets" [p. 170]. What does he mean by this? Why does the father say about his son, later in the same conversation, "What if I said that he's a god?" [p. 172] Are we meant to see the son as a savior?

Monday, February 10, 2014

Fight Club (Blog #4)

From what we can tell so far, what seems to be the narrator’s relationship to Tyler? What feelings pervade these chapters, and what’s the narrator’s attitude toward life in general?

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The Road (Blog #1)

McCarthy has an unmistakable prose style. What do you see as the most distinctive features of that style? How is the writing in The Road in some ways more like poetry than prose?