Houses

After reading "How Fiction Works" by James Wood, we see that the style that "The Road" is written in is indirect. McCarthy uses this style of writing to make the information presented more reliable and less personal to the father or child. We are rarely given information about the area that the father does not already have so "The Road" has some limitations to the descriptions that we read."The Road" is very enthralling read because of the way that it is written; because we never really get a huge influx in information but what we do get is well rounded and not biased toward one character./ In Wood's text he describes a house with "many windows, but only two or three doors," comparing the house to writing an how it can be done. I think that this is a very interesting idea that Wood has put forward. I think that if the windows are different ways to write (perspectives) then the doors would be the products./When Wood’s talks about the unreliability of first person narratives and other styles of writing I found it interesting. Thinking back to the other novels that we read this year such as “We” and “The Handmaids Tale” it is obvious that we were obviously not getting truly reliable information as we only got parts of the story as well as information that the characters were (themselves) unsure of.