Bastard Out of Carolina

After finishing my first reading book I am definitely even more disgusted at the idea of child abuse than I was before. I have a feeling that it is going to keep getting worse with every book I read. The ending of this book just made my want to go punch one of the characters in the face. Now, obviously she is not real but I am sure there are people out there that make the same mistakes as her. You would think that I would be madder at the character that was abusing the child, but that is not the case. The child’s mother is actually the one that I want to punch in the face (obviously the abuser too). The mother walks in on her daughter getting abused the worst it has ever been and she takes her to the hospital but then leaves her child for her husband, the man abusing her daughter. This makes me so incredibly angry. How could you love someone that raped and beat your child? And how could you leave you child for anything? It also makes me wonder how authors think of these things. The fact that the author dedicated the book to her mother who has the same name as the main character is also interesting and makes me think that maybe she was abused, which makes me want to throw up.

The End

I am not a creative person so I am not going to write another chapter but I am going to discuss the ending of The Road. I hated the ending. I think that they both should have died. Yes, it would have been even more depressing but it would have been more believable. The fact that right after the father died a man shows up to take care of the boy is way to convenient and kind of annoying. The boy should either have died or learned how to take care of himself or literally anything other than what happened. Also, the man’s death was very short and not as drawn out as I thought it was going to be. The whole book is kind of repetitive and makes their suffering very detailed, but then the man just kind of dies…no big deal. I think that the boy is going to die very soon anyways even though he is with this “family” or whatever they are. There is no way that they all can survive. Unless there is some unknown place that the man and boy didn’t know about… they are going to starve and die. Basically, McCarthy should have made the boy die.

Waiting

I hate waiting… I have finally turned in all my college stuff and it feels amazing. However, waiting is not fun at all. In fact, it is very stressful. I have to wait a month for one result and then another month after that for the second result. I am pretty sure that I know what the results for on if them is going to be, but of course I start doubting myself. It is also scary that I only applied to one college, which I got accepted to, but if I don’t get into the program that I am trying for, I don’t know what I’m going to do. Obviously I will still be going to the college but I will be very disappointed with myself. The second result, scholarships, I have no idea what the result is going to be. Either way it goes though I am going to be very happy, so I’m not as worried about that one. If I get invited for an interview for the scholarship I was asked to apply for though I will just get overrun with stress again. It would be good stress but nonetheless, its still stress. And it never ends. 

The Road

I enjoy reading The Road for the most part. It started to get a little repetitive but tonight’s reading was a lot more interesting. I gore doesn’t bother me at all and it is not as bad as it was going to be. When we were talking about it in class I thought it was going to be a lot worse. I don’t mind his reading style at all, I actually kind of like it. I don’t really notice it much when I am reading because it just makes sense with the way that I think. However, I do have a problem with the characters in the book, mainly the dad. I think he is very selfish and kind of dumb. I don’t understand why anyone would want to live like that when they have nothing to look forward to. They are trying to get south, but for what? It is still going to be a struggle to survive down there. And it is cruel to make your son live through the misery. It may be hard to kill him but if the dad believes in heaven then he should want to be in a better place. It just doesn’t make sense to me because they are suffering for what? For nothing.