Question

"[h]e had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an illformed notion of their appearance." (63) what does this indicate about the survival of animal life since the disaster? provide at least one other example from the text.

Answer 1

Answer: All animal life seems to have perished in the post-apocalyptic setting described by Cormac McCarthy in “The Road”.

Explanation:

The lack of birds is also enhanced by the constant reference to them in some flashbacks yet not in the present. And regarding aquatic animals, when the son asks, "Do you think there could be fish in the lake," the father replies, "No. There is nothin gin the lake". This interaction shows the nonexistence of animal life is a fact.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

In the book "The road" authored by McCarthy Cormac we see how that in section 6 the answer was referenced.

"[H]e had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an illformed

notion of their appearance"– this linked to the the imprint left in his mind because all animals were long gone (dead) but the picture of a bird was still in his imagination.

Here is how the text began on page 63.

" He wore a beard that had been cut square across the bottom with shears and he had a tattoo of a bird on his neck ..."