hope at the end of the road
A reading of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a post-apocalyptic world
Last week, I shared a close reading exercise to show you how to read a single paragraph to inspire a longer close reading.
Today, I’m sharing my close reading of The Road, as a way of connecting the dots between the exercise and its potential output: a short essay.
The paragraph that I closely read last week introduced a few key themes, including the shif…
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