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" tolling " is a reference to church bells, so is symbolism of the endless march of death etc.

Time.

McCarthy does not openly give us knowledge of the passing of time, instead we have to assume the time passed and set from clues he gives us, eg. " one night the boy woke from a dream " " The darkening town " he also continually refers back to breakfast and dinner as it shows a routine, shows the characters as grasping small things from their old world, not wanting to let go.

Marking seasons- " can i cover him in leaves " the father dies in autumn, symbolic because of the falling of leaves, the death of the summer life, nature begins to sleep. P 305
Winter when walking through blizzard, as well as when meeting the mutilated people, as they described the " tray " snow. P 114

Telescoped time, McCarthy slows down (contracts )time when going down the stairs in the house P116, causes tension and mimics horror films, evokes emotion within us.
McCarthy expands time when filling the gas canisters up {229 for again tension. panic, etc.

" coldness was her final gift " McCarthy uses a linear chronology except when flashing back to certain events, eg the mothers leaving, however after half way through the book there is no more flash backs, this is to show how they have almost let go of all their past lives.

1. six main episodes.
2. Deliberate dull writing
3. telescoping of time.
4. Routine like writing with lack of punctuation.
5. Communes, why wasn't he in one? something to dwell over.

1. 6
2. Dull
3. Telescoping.
4. Routine.
5. Communes

1. Dull.

Not Oedipal, only man, unnatural, doomed world. The characters rely on basic human instinct, we are primal again, the boy describes himself as the " one " to show a contrast, only hope.

McCarthy has a limited pallet, doesn't use many colours, mostly shades of tray to show the dull and doomed post apocalyptic world. " grays " ashen "

Death of every living thing through language, " couldn't even tell what it was "P52, reflects how humanity is merging into the rest of the greying hopeless landscape, death is now normality so dead man is simply " it " , Not regarded as human anymore, rather passed over, pointlessness. " Gray Beach " 230. bleak, dull, emotionless, ironic as the start of life has seen to be as dull and lifeless as the rest of the world, again no hope, no emotion, only death. Deathscape, post apocalyptic world.

" he " " he walked " repetition of he to separate the man from the boy, father does not teach him anything, isnt planning a life after he has died... as he doesn't teach him to survive he can state how the boy could not survive without him- self afilling prophecy.