How Does Mccarthy Tell the Story in Pages 229-241?

In this extract, McCarthy claims the anticlimax of the jockstrap and his sons arrival at the Cold. Desolate. Birdless. environment of the beach. McCarthy juxtaposes the openness of the embellish with the male childs optimism in order to highlight the boys inherent goodness. McCarthy tells the story using narrative voice in this partitioning of the text. He contrasts the ordinal person extradiegetic narrator with the mans inner monologue in order to convey multiple perspectives to the lecturer. Hed left the cart in the bracken beyond the dunes and theyd taken blankets with them and sat wrapped in them in the wind-shade of a great driftwood log. Here, McCarthy constructs the lexis of the third person narrator using what some critics have called a peculiar(a) linguistic palette. The polysyndeton creates a steady rhythm, which latitudes the rhythm of the journey the man and boy are on, which is, like the sentence, seemingly never-ending. Here the narrator presents the reade r with a practical account of the man and boys response to the dash treeing hopes of the beach, detailing their movements with unelaborated, un stirred wrangle.The pared back language poignantly conveys the sense that the bleakness of the beach was inevitable. In contrast, the tricolon Cold. Desolate. Birdless, is clearly the mans interior monologue. The tether adjectives highlight the extent to which the reality of the beach does not live up to the characters expectations of it. Where they had hoped for warmth when heading south, instead they found cold. Where they had hoped for a to a greater extent habitable climate, they found a desolate environment. Where they had hoped for life, they had found a birdless environment.Thus, the tricolon conveys the mans disappointment to the reader. McCarthy utilizes stream of consciousness in order to enable the reader to understand the mans emotional response. The narrator is characteristicly unemotive, presenting a pared back account of ev ents and it is thus these rarefied glimpses into the mans thoughts that enable the reader to empathise with his perspective. McCarthy withal manipulates language in order to convey the bleakness of the beach. The Cold. Desolate. Birdless beach has a parallel in the barren. Silent.Godless landscape in the novels opening pages, creating residuum in the narrative. Just as the rest of the narrative is permeated with metaphorical ash, so the beach too is describes as gray, with the gray bid line of ash. This lexical clusters connoting decay suggests that the beach, like the rest of the world, has been irreparably tarnished by the apocalypse. The simile, like the desolation of some alien sea break on the shore is poignant as the sea is alien, be to another world, highlighting the extent to which the sea has disappointed the man and boy.McCarthy also utilizes structure in order to present this anticlimactic moment to the reader. The author presents uninterrupted passages of narration and then starkly juxtaposes them with almost two pages of unattributed colloquy between the protagonist and his son. McCarthy presents the unadulterated dialogue without narrator intrusion, bringing the reader closer to the narrative as if they are experiencing the conversation firsthand. Although McCarthy does not explicitly attribute dialogue to either character, the reader has become accustomed to patterns inside the speech of each of the characters.This dialogue is to a certain extent typical of the two characters, with the boy expressing his optimism through a series of questions. In painfulness of the desolation, the boy asks, do you think at that place could be ships out there? and suggests that other humans could also be carrying the fire in spite of negligible evidence that this could be the case. Furthermore, he suggests that maybe theres a father and his little boy and theyre sitting on the beach. Through the boys dialogue, McCarthy reinforces the sense that the boy could be an angel or a god in his unwavering optimism.