My artwork is about how the man and the boy have such a great bond together and I think it’s amazing what they have. Throughout the beginning of the book the man and the boy woke up in the woods together and it was scary for them because it was dark out. Also how they stick by each other and the man knows he has to look after the boy no matter what and that he can’t leave him behind because the boy would end up dead very fast. I chose to make the scene this way because I thought it was a good way to let people know about how important bonds and relationships are with people. How being close with someone and having their back and them having your back can go a very long way and can help you out when you really need it. Like for example the man and the boy cuddle up when it started to rain and they needed to get under the rock to stay warm or when the man gave the boy the soda that he found behind the fallen soda machine so that they boy could enjoy probably his last soda ever and that he was drinking something so he wouldn’t die of thirst. The significance of the artwork is just friendship and love and that The man and the boy are a perfect example of what a true friendship should look like and how you need to have each other’s back and look out for one another. I also think that it’s a good example because the man thinks about how he might have to kill the boy in order to survive later on but i truly think he won’t do it because one he won’t have the guts but two he has build such a strong bond with the boy that he would feel so much guilt and would think about it everyday for the rest of his li

For my first literary logging concerning Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, I decided to draw the creature the man dreamed of on pages 2-3 of the book. I tried to stay as accurate to the description as possible, but many things were left open to interpretation and also there was a lot of room for creative freedom. Some of the most important aspects that I made sure to include were that the creature has translucent skin, and you can see its organs. Another important feature I included were the blind white eyes “like spider eggs.” I then colored the organs gray, because everything is gray and cold and sad. I didn’t color the bones because they were described as “alabaster.” I based the anatomy of the creature off of a stag, because that was the vibe I was getting from the description, the only exception being the head, as horns were never described and I feel like if it had horns, it would be said.

I think that the descriptive words used for the creature are very intentional, I think they indicate a weak or fragile creature, something exposed and blind, that lurches and lopes, and gives low moans. This dream and creature, in a way, despite being fragile, represent a part of the man’s sanity. The man claims that men of peril dream of peril, and this is the most perilous and disturbing dream he has had. This dream is not luring him to death. The child is leading the man to fragility, weakness, and blindness, represented by the creature, but he is also leading the man to life. The man feels that he cannot live without the child, but also is aware that he is stronger without him, he sometimes wishes “he had a heart of stone.” This dream perfectly represents that. While my art does not have the whole scene, I’m very happy with how it turned out, and it very much helped me interpret the dream. Also, funny animal.