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Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Road: Wild Cannibals



            This excerpt was interesting. I can’t exactly say I understand everything about it (but perhaps that is because it only seemed like an excerpt and not an entire story so I don’t know the entire background). However, in certain places within the piece I can definitely clearly indicate the connections between the world this father and son live in to that of someone’s interpretation of the wild. There was one part in particular that stood out to me, which is when it said that someday the fathers would eat their children right in front of you. That was a complete shock to me. The statement itself is not only wild and nefarious, but this cannibalism immediately reminded me of the prey and predator. The animalistic act of cannibalism is without a doubt a very untamable sense of the theme “the wild.” I enjoyed reading it a lot.  

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