Comparison Of Schirkoa And The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

The short film Schirkoa created by Ishan Shukla and the novel The Road written by Cormac McCarthy both exemplify following core values. In both Schirkoa and The Road the characters have strong morality, the plot demonstrates loyalty, and the language use conveys deceitfulness. These two texts are powerful demonstrations of following core values, however, in Schirkoa the main character demonstrates both positive and negative core values throughout the film.

The main characters in Schirkoa and The Road both display morality. In The Road after the father and the boy killed a man in an act of self-defence, the boy questioned if what they did was acceptable. He asked his dad soon after they killed him “are we still the good guys?” (McCarthy 38) He knew in his heart what they

In the novel The Road the mother talks about not being able to protect herself or her son from these deceitful and dangerous ‘bad guys’, “sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us. They will rape me. They’ll rape him. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us if you wont face it.” (McCarthy 29) She explains to her husband why she wants to give up because the bad guys will eventually try to lure them in and mislead them to their advantage in surviving. Similarly in Schirkoa the language used to explain Baghead 197A makes him out to be a deceitful person when ‘Little Whore’ explains her past relationship with him. After she talks about him finding a new girlfriend after what they had together she claims “He never visited me again. It was a brutal winter.” (07:19) Baghead 197A misled ‘Little Whore’ into thinking they had a relationship, but he moved on to the next woman and only used ‘Little Whore’ to his advantage when she was in love with him. The two stories both display deceitfulness as a core value and recognizable trait within the language