Dear Cormac McCarthy,
I really enjoyed your book. It evoked a sense of mystery and a sense of fear from within me. I enjoyed the dark and loneliness of the story. I believe that it has a pretty good message to the world as well, just like Charles Murkowski’s “Dinosauria, We.” The book told of what could possibly we our future if we do not change our ways. It also basically said that this was an inevitable end to things. For instance, the old man on the road said that he knew it was coming, but he just didn’t know when and he didn’t know how to prepare for it because it was impossible to prepare for. I agree with the old man in a sense. More than likely, the way things are in our world currently will cease to be the same. No one knows when things will change or why they will change, but one day, hopefully in the distant future, things will change, for the better or for the worse.
I also enjoyed the characters that you presented. The little boy and the man were a great inspiration in the book simply because they kept going, no matter how difficult life was. The boy in the end seemed to be a beacon of light to all of the other lost people and the lost and lonely world. He held the fire. As long as he continued on, there was some type of hope for the world. It is amazing that someone can continue on their path although it seems so hard and pointless to do so. I felt that this aspect of your book was a great inspiration despite all of the sadness and darkness within your book.
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