The novel begins with no previous notice. The Road by Cormac McCarthy starts by telling you exactly what is going on, there is practically no introduction. In fact in the second paragraph already we know the objective of the characters in the book, “They were moving south. There'd be no surviving another winter here.”(McCarthy - pg2) This is told to us readers in the beginning; just as we are reading the first parts of the novel the author throws us this.
It’s not every day that we read a book as direct as this one. In my experience as a reader I have encountered very little books like this one. I usually see there is a brief introduction to the characters, maybe the setting, but in this case all we know is that they must leave.
In fact, the journey starts in the second page, “An hour later they were on the road”. (McCarthy – pg3). The book has just begun, and so has the journey. It’s as though the author is telling us that the novel is a journey, and just as the man and the boy are beginning a journey you are too. This method is very effective, because he starts the book with no introductions, starting straight away with their journey, just as we are when we read this book.
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