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Ravenous
3.5/5
A man and his son, a little boy, are on the road through an apocalyptic world. Some kind of disaster has occurred that killed off most humans and those that are still alive have to fight to survive, especially for food. Pushing a cart with all their belongings both cross this dead world, a burned up United States. There's not only the danger of starvation, as all plant and animal life has gone, but also other survivors that have resorted to cannibalism and would do anything to get their hands on a little defenseless boy. With danger lurking at every corner the both of them have to rely on themselves to get through.
As reader we don't know exactly what has happened, whether it was a nuclear war or a climate disaster, Cormac McCarthy left this out of the story. But in itself, this part of the story is not the important part. The entire story really is about the survival and the relation between the two main characters, the father and the son.
I do have some mixed feelings about the writing because most of the time the characters felt very two-dimensional and not a lot happens, apart from them being on the road, looking for food or hiding from some possible bad folks. Only in the third act the story picked up pace a little bit but the ending disappointed me because I needed a more ambiguous ending... I do recall thinking during the entire novel if the man and the boy were truly father and son or if this was just a way they saw each other because they were the only ones who they could rely on.
As I said, I had mixed feelings but mostly I was very invested in the relationship between the two main characters and the world McCarthy has built, one where food is scarce and people are in complete survival mode. It begs the question how far you would go yourself when you were in this kind of situation.
A man and his son, a little boy, are on the road through an apocalyptic world. Some kind of disaster has occurred that killed off most humans and those that are still alive have to fight to survive, especially for food. Pushing a cart with all their belongings both cross this dead world, a burned up United States. There's not only the danger of starvation, as all plant and animal life has gone, but also other survivors that have resorted to cannibalism and would do anything to get their hands on a little defenseless boy. With danger lurking at every corner the both of them have to rely on themselves to get through.
As reader we don't know exactly what has happened, whether it was a nuclear war or a climate disaster, Cormac McCarthy left this out of the story. But in itself, this part of the story is not the important part. The entire story really is about the survival and the relation between the two main characters, the father and the son.
I do have some mixed feelings about the writing because most of the time the characters felt very two-dimensional and not a lot happens, apart from them being on the road, looking for food or hiding from some possible bad folks. Only in the third act the story picked up pace a little bit but the ending disappointed me because I needed a more ambiguous ending... I do recall thinking during the entire novel if the man and the boy were truly father and son or if this was just a way they saw each other because they were the only ones who they could rely on.
As I said, I had mixed feelings but mostly I was very invested in the relationship between the two main characters and the world McCarthy has built, one where food is scarce and people are in complete survival mode. It begs the question how far you would go yourself when you were in this kind of situation.
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