Baptist proclaims will baptize you with water for repentance…He will baptize you with the “I Holy Spirit and with fire” (Matthew 3:11). Also later in the Book of Matthew, a different baptism scene is described, soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was “As opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, is my son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased” “This (Matthew 3:16). If the reader looks back at the last line of this quote, it mirrors the line pulled from Road”, “The when the father says is my child, he said. I wash a dead man’s brains out of his hair. That is my job. “This Then wrapped him in the blanket and carried him to the fire” (McCarthy 74). By drawing this parallel, McCarthy is placing importance on these two characters, indicating that the son could be the hope and salvation for this new desolate world, just as Jesus was marked to do the same. At the end of the Book of Matthew, is speaking to his disciples, saying to them go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of “Therefore the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of age” (Matthew 28:19). This connects the idea of baptisms in Road” back to the references to the Holy Trinity, further deepening the “The religious undertones in the novel. When the boy is pseudo-baptised in Road”, it can be “The thought of as a rite of passage for the boy where he is reborn the name of the Father and of “in the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. After this point in the story, the boy starts to gain more wisdom and maturity, as he begins to realize the magnitude of the journey before them and the sacrifices
Baptist proclaims “I will baptize you with water for repentance…He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire” (Matthew 3:11). Also later in the Book of Matthew, a different baptism scene is described, “As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:16). If the reader looks back at the last line of this quote, it mirrors the line pulled from “The Road”, when the father says “This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man’s brains out of his hair. That is my job. Then wrapped him in the blanket and carried him to the fire” (McCarthy 74). By drawing this parallel, McCarthy is placing importance on these two characters, indicating that the son could be the hope and salvation for this new desolate world, just as Jesus was marked to do the same. At the end of the Book of Matthew, is speaking to his disciples, saying to them “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of age” (Matthew 28:19). This connects the idea of baptisms in “The Road” back to the references to the Holy Trinity, further deepening the religious undertones in the novel. When the boy is pseudo-baptised in “The Road”, it can be thought of as a rite of passage for the boy where he is reborn “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. After this point in the story, the boy starts to gain more wisdom and maturity, as he begins to realize the magnitude of the journey before them and the sacrifices
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