Imagery in The Road by Cormac McCarthy : Grin Verlag : 9783346303752 : 3346303756 : 29 Dec 2020 : Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, language: English, abstract: The Road, a novel by Cormac McCarthy is set after a calamity that has swept away the whole world and has left only a few people on this planet. Among these people are 'the man' and 'the boy' who represent goodness in this wrecked and cannibalistic world. McCarthy builds the horrific environment in the novel through 'imagery'. This research paper aims to explore both descriptive and figurative language with the help of which the writer employs the technique of imagery in the novel. The writer makes use of descriptive language, with the purpose of creating vivid scenes that appeal to the senses of the reader. This type of imagery integrates five senses - vision, auditory, gustatory, kinesthetic and olfactory. This kind of imagery has been crafted by the writer to exhibi