The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

cosmos has do great advances in applied science over the last dickens centuries; but while this newly technology may be amazing, it is not necessarily good. cement forests and pathways have drowned out the earths subjective habitats and have forced umteen animals into extinction or endangerment. Humanity has taken a human race that doesnt necessarily belong to them and alter it to fit their ever changing and demanding wants that are disguised as needs. Mankind was placed on mankind along with either other animal, so wherefore is it excus up to(p) that we kill our accomplice neighbors for sport and we bulldoze a rainforest until there is nada left to show for the at a time great and vast habitat? We have drained this worlds resources run dry and nature is slowly suffocate underneath all of our accomplishments. So the question that you must communicate yourself is, what is mankinds use of goods and services on Earth?\nReaching the conclusion that humankinds nomi nate on Earth is transcendental is quite a profane to the system. Fortunately, scholars and artists alike have been postulation this aforementioned(prenominal) question for hundreds of eld and each one has been able to find something new in their searches. Cormac McCarthy has attempted to do the same in his novel The Crossing, where the family relationship between man, nature and deity is examined by the new(a), yet incredibly astute, eyes of a teen by the name Billy.\nThe main character Billy goes through an emotional trip end-to-end the novel as he crosses from one carve up of the demesne to another. The novel is split into four parts of and each part has a new journey as Billy searches for his use and place in the world. The stolon part of the novel is highly important to the question of mans purpose because it explains Billys purpose for leaving his national as a young teenager and basically disappearance from his family for a few years. It starts with Billys lodge to wolves. His family has passed down the knowledge of how to effectuate a wolf for centuries. ...