Avoiding emotional language and keeping it simple makes the narrative all the more emotionally engaging.
McCarthy purposely uses simplistic language in order to build a blunt, bleak image of their vulgor world without the need to emphasise it; for instence, the finding of the baby on the spit. There is but one line actually describing the gross image itself, representing the lack of emotion presented by the characters, yet the painful image leaves the required disturbing tone. McCarthy wished to illustrate such brutal images in order to present the bleak facts to the reader; there is no other, nor an easier way to desribe it, no hiding the truth in a world so bleak in itself. McCarthy also presents the reader with the philosophical issue of we cannot miss what never was; what we significantly hoped for of the world was pointless because we would have never accomplished such fantasies.
"How does the never to be differ from what never was."
Through this statement alone, we can percieve their world as a hopless pit of depressing misery; without a sense of hope there is no life, without a sense of living there is just mere existence. How can they hope to live in a world with nothing to spare for itself.
Holly. Beautifully succinct. You would benefit from slightly more textual support but you A01 skills are otherwise very good.
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"How does the never to be differ from what never was."