https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv I. Write down one word that describes McCarthy's writing style. II. Find a quote from the novel that exemplifies this word. en-us 2019-10-23 16:43:39 UTC 2025-11-28 11:33:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401630019 One word to describe McCarthy's writing is Melancholy.
"Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave"]]> 2019-10-23 17:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401630019 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401630752 Mc Carthy uses direct and vivid and there is a lack of punctuation. His simple  writing style does not make the story less tense and he is able to convey his point in great detail .]]> 2019-10-23 17:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401630752 shazima5170 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401632090 How does this work ]]> 2019-10-23 17:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401632090 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401632681 Writing style is Dark.
“On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt.”]]> 2019-10-23 17:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401632681 tahibar0168 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401633513 McCarthy’s writing style is ambiguous. An example of this is in page 56 “Sooner they will catch us and they will kill us. They will rape me. They’ll rape him. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you won’t face it” McCarthy describes the type of people they are running away from without being obvious]]> 2019-10-23 18:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401633513 aliciae3434 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401633691 Evocative style
“It had stop snowing and the cedar trees lay about in hillocks of snow and broken limbs and a few standing trunks that stood stripped and burnt looking in that graying landscape”]]> 2019-10-23 18:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401633691 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401633901 Shaila 
 One word that describes McCarthy’s writing style is simple but powerful, he uses very little punctuation. ]]> 2019-10-23 18:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401633901 sadea4835 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401634927 “He sat up and looked toward the house be he could see only darkness”]]> 2019-10-23 18:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401634927 jannatunu5001 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401634965 One way to describe McCarthy’s unique writing style is cold and gloomy.

“Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more grey Each one than what had gone before”.


]]> 2019-10-23 18:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401634965 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401635211 Writing style is depressing
“They sat in the road and ate leftover skilletbread hard as biscuit and their last can of tunafish”.]]> 2019-10-23 18:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401635211 shazima5170 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401635603 One word to describe McCarthy writing style is very dry like the desert.  
“Is it cold?”
“Yes. It’s freezing”
“Do you want to go in?”
“I don’t know.”
“Sure you do.”
“Come on.” ]]> 2019-10-23 18:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401635603 mayral6156 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401636623 Suspenseful

"He'd dropped the lighter, no time to look. He pushed the boy up the stairs. Help us they called. Hurry. A bearded face appeared blinking at the foot of the stairs. Please, he called. Please. Hurry. For God's sake hurry.]]> 2019-10-23 18:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401636623 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401636693 writing style is powerful 
“ He held the boy’s hand and kicked up limbs and brush and got a fire going.”]]> 2019-10-23 18:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401636693 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401636718
Gloom imagery
They stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out of the sullen murk. A frail slush forming over the dark surface of the road.

]]> 2019-10-23 18:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401636718 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401636774 Vivid - “He could see part of a stone wall. Clay floor. An old mattress darkly stained. He crouched and stepped down again and held out the light. Huddled against the back were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man wit his legs gone to the hip and stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous.”]]> 2019-10-23 18:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401636774 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401637351 His style of writing is unique and in a different way from other writers.  His writing style is very straightforward .“He looked at the dry grass where it moved and at  the dark and twisted trees in their rows” ]]> 2019-10-23 18:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401637351 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401637943 Mccarthy’s writing can be described as disturbing. “Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God he whispered . Oh God.”]]> 2019-10-23 18:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401637943 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401639311 🌚]]> 2019-10-23 18:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401639311 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401639402 Maybeline Escobar 
McCarthy’s writing style is emotionally powerful an example of this is when the man says “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real” because it makes you wonder and imagine what it is that the man is thinking about while saying this. ]]> 2019-10-23 18:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401639402 shazima5170 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401640186 Cormac Mccarthy or Ernest Hemingway 
Everyone vote]]> 2019-10-23 18:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401640186 anjolao7782 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401640611
Painful
A writing that gets you in your feelings  and also makes you imagine the fear and starvation that the characters went through as demonstrated by McCarthy “They’d had no food and sleep for five days”.]]> 2019-10-23 18:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401640611 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401641129 Sharae 
                Darkly powerful 
          “They set out through the dark woods. There was a moon somewhere beyond the ashen overcast and they could just make out the trees. They staggered on like drunks. If they find us they’ll kill us ,won’t they papa. Shh no more talking . Won’t they papa. Shh.yes.yes they will]]> 2019-10-23 18:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401641129 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401641613 Dark, throughout the novel the author continuously expresses this theme. “Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands”]]> 2019-10-23 18:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401641613 evensonf8537 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401641744 I]]> 2019-10-23 18:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401641744 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401641767 One word that describes Cormac McCarthy’s writing style is dispairing. “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” ]]> 2019-10-23 18:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401641767 litzyd2112 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401642813 Apprehensive 
He’d has this feeling before before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities.”]]> 2019-10-23 18:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401642813 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401643499 Aight ima head out ✌🏾🏌🏾‍♂️]]> 2019-10-23 18:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401643499 tahibar0168 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401644753 What type of competition is this]]> 2019-10-23 18:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401644753 luisg5996 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401644966 McCarthy writing style can be described as terror 
“ What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return “]]> 2019-10-23 18:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401644966 evensonf8537 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401645084 McCarthy use direct and vivid writing.  He has a lack of punctuation also . His simple writing dose make the story less tense and he is able to convey his point in great detail.  Man] Where are we?   [The Boy] yes. [The Man] I don’t know. This is a great example of McCarthy writing and it fits perfectly ]]> 2019-10-23 18:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401645084 https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401656853 2019-10-23 18:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rkilkeary/b35h5mr8qbiv/wish/401656853