Literary critics and book reviewers alike have proven that The Road can be read as either a redemptive or non-redemptive text. What is your reading? Thinking back to Shelly Rambo’s essay “Beyond Redemption?: Reading Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ After the End of the World,” (Rambo, Shelly L. “Beyond Redemption?: Reading Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ After the End of the World.” Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 41, no. 2, fall 2008, pp. 99+. Gale Academic OneFile Select, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A206051098/EAIM?u=ko_acd_shc&sid=bookmark-EAIM&xid=3f337bd3. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.)
Do you “interpret the boy’s survival as a testimony to the persistence of hope and regeneration,” or do you “find the notion of a redemptive ending sentimental, unrealistic, and inconsistent with the rest of the book and its unrelenting picture of doom” (100)?
Please support your argument with at least three quotations from the novel, at least one from the linked sources above and at least one from a relevant outside source. Quotations must be properly introduced/integrated into your writing and must be cited according to MLA convention. All works cited need to be listed at the end of your posting.