Book and Movie Reports by Ed

Book report: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy What’s left when civilization is burned away? In The Road, an unspecified catastrophe has reduced most cities to cinders. Knee-deep ash is everywhere. Permanent clouds block the sun, moon, and stars. Every plant has died, every animal that eats plants has died, and every animal that eats animals has died. The only animal left is the one able to open cans. In this world, a tin of peaches is a treasure beyond imagining. This book is kind of like The Grapes of Wrath meets The Road Warrior. The population of North America is maybe a few hundred, most of them nasty enough to kill and eat anyone they happen meet on the road. Traveling the road is a man and his young son, both unnamed, moving from the inland north to the coastal south to escape the brutal winters. Along the way, they live by scavenging among whatever our plenty has left them, avoiding everyone else they come across, but still stumbling across horror upon horror. The boy regularly