http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/the-road Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:24:49 -0400 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:24:49 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1031/survival-and-morality-in-cormac-mccarthys-the-road-exploring-aquinian-grace-and-the-boy-as-messiah By Carla M. Sanchez - In the first scene of The Road (2006), Cormac McCarthy encapsulates the bleak psychology of his post-apocalyptic novel with a metaphor of blindness that symbolically translates the confusion and hopelessness of his desolate world. In a normal setting, the father’s moment of awakening would mean a return to consciousness and the certainty of reality, a relief from the hauntingly cryptic realm of dreams. But in this landscape, where gloom corrupts the days like “the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world,” the clarity of waking is negated by a fear that only the refuge... Fri, 01 May 2015 06:41 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1031/survival-and-morality-in-cormac-mccarthys-the-road-exploring-aquinian-grace-and-the-boy-as-messiah http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/51/telepathic-shock-and-the-rush-of-it-all-jack-kerouacs-use-of-language-in-on-the-road By Greg Pavlisko - Much of the “feeling” Kerouac was looking to produce came from the influence of the emerging bebop scene. The more experimentally inclined improvisers like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie shook loose the singular measure and diatonic development of the standard jazz ballad. Kerouac reveled in bebop and the way it made him feel and sought to bring that into his writing, “Kerouac introduces constant fluctuations of line speed over pulse with repeated syllables and disjunctive punctuation, akin to the way that a jazz soloist trips himself up to defy prediction” (Hrebeniak... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:30 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/51/telepathic-shock-and-the-rush-of-it-all-jack-kerouacs-use-of-language-in-on-the-road