Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Wurzburg (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Themenbereich Amerikanistik: Masters of Transgressive Fiction: Ellis, Palahniuk and McCarthy, language: English, abstract: In this paper I want to discuss on how Cormac McCarthy treats the topics God, morals and justice in the post-apocalyptic setting of his prize-winning novel The Road and give insight on how these constructions work in general.