The Breath of God
I have been reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road with high school seniors off and on since 2009. The first time I did it we focused on the darkness, the loss, the idea of how little seems to matter. As time went by I began to teach it as a love story, which I think it is mostly. The love between the father and son is extremely powerful. The father sees the future of humanity in the boy, and the good news about that is that the boy is goodness personified. The boy is better than