open letter to cormac

Dear Cormac McCarthy,

I really liked your book. I can honestly say it was the first book I actually enjoyed reading in a long time. It was surprisingly interesting to me. You know the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover,” well that is exactly what I did. When I saw the book for the first time I did not want to read it, the cover was so dull to me but when I started reading it i grew more and more interested, so I kept reading. Although I liked the book, the setting and the whole atmosphere was saddening. When we watched the movie on the book I never saw the sun once. Neither did I see any animals. Well, you rarely saw other people in the movie so should I be surprised that I did not see animals or the sun?

Many people talk about love, but what is love? Do they really know what love is?...  I know what love is. Love is not what most people think it is. It is not, “I love my girlfriend/boyfriend” or I love those jeans on you girl.” Love is what the father and son have for each other. True love is when you are willing to die for something or someone. A question was posed, and it was would you kill your son/daughter to protect them from being raped and eaten. This was by far the toughest question ever. One side of me wanted to say yes, because who would want a loved one to suffer like that. But the other part of me wanted to say no because who could kill a loved one, and most importantly who could live knowing that they killed one that they love.