Jack wrote:
The boy as Christ? I don't see it.
************* It's always a personal call. One parallel is
probably not enough, but when the similarities start stacking
up, the chance that it's coincidence drops off. No problem
either way, of course. One of the reasons I see it is because
I'm looking for it.
God, angels, hell, and other religious motifs abound, so
that's a hint. The father and son meet an old man on the
road. He claims his name is Ely. Among other things, Elijah
was the prophet of the coming of Christ. A page or two later
the old man states:
"There is no god and we are his prophets." The boy ponders
out loud the concept of God as flesh when he sees a child and
questions: "What if I said that he's a god?" For those
looking for a Christ-symbol in the boy, McCarthy loads the
text with the not-so-subtle:
"I am the one." "One" is not capitalized, so I guess he's not
being too blatant about it. Nevertheless, I think McCarthy
chuckled when he wrote it.
miker
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