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

In this extract, McCarthy conveys the anticlimax of the protagonist and his newss arrival at the Cold. Desolate. Birdless. environment of the beach. McCarthy juxtaposes the bleakness of the landscape with the boys optimism in revise to highlight the boys inherent goodness. McCarthy tells the story using narrative voice in this segment of the text. He contrasts the third person extradiegetic storyteller with the mans interior monologue in value to convey multiple perspectives to the reader. 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 limited linguistic palette. The polysyndeton creates a steady rhythm, which parallels the rhythm of the trip the man and boy argon on, which is, like the sentence, seemingly never-ending. Here the narrator presents the reader with a concre te accounting of the man and boys response to the disappointment of the beach, detailing their movements with unelaborated, unemotional language.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 ternary 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 s outh, or else they found cold. Where they had hoped for a more 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 modify the reader to understand the mans emotional response. The narrator is typically unemotive, presenting a pared back account of events and it is thus these rare gl impses into the mans thoughts that enable the reader to empathise with his perspective. McCarthy also 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 bracings opening pages, creating symmetry 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 squall 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 ocean breaking on the shore is poignant as the sea is alien, belonging to another world, set off the extent to which the sea has disappointed the man and boy.McCarthy also utilizes structure in order to present this anticlimactical moment to the reader. The writer presents uninterrupted passages of narration and then starkly juxtapose s them with almost two pages of unattributed dialogue surrounded by 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 in spite of appearance 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 finished a series of questions. In spite of the desolation, the boy asks, do you think there could be ships out there? and suggests that other humans could also be carrying the fire in spite of negligible demonstration 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 holy person or a god in his unwavering optimism.