To me McCarthy has done a good job building suspense in the first twenty-five pages. He has really made it so I want to find out what is going to happen to the two people that are traveling down these roads trying to get to the south, where it is warm.
The thing that really held my attention is trying to figure out what caused all of the people to die and why some people survived. My guess after the first twenty-five pages is there must of been some kind of nuclear war and not everyone died instantly, but he keeps coughing up blood and this makes me believe that he is slowly dieing from the radiation of the bomb. In the book so far he has done a good job of describing how the land is all burnt and still burning, which give you a great sense of what the scene probably looks like. So far I have enjoyed the book and want to continue reading it.
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I agree with you when you say that McCarthy has done a really good job in building up suspense so far. He only tells us what the father and son sees, leaving us in the dark about a lot of things, like why they are running. I want to know why they are running away and why they are running to the south where it is warm. A nuclear way is a really good idea of what has happened. Why so many people are dead and why only some survived. It also provides an answer to his caught and why he is coughing up blood, because of the radiation of the bomb. McCarthy has done a good job at describing the environment that surrounds the father and his son. It shows that it is not a pretty place to be in.
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