How Is The Story Told in Section 111-131 of The Road?

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exit to the woods nearby, where they spend the night. The next day the father takes a walk and finds tens of mouldy old apples, which in their circumstances seem like heaven.
McCarthy used descriptive language to slow down action and build tension through setting, `they stepped into a broad foyer floored in a domino of black and white marble tiles...to the left through the doorway stood a large walnut buffet in what must have been a dining room.' The descriptive setting slows action down by diverting the reader and creating an image in their head, which then in turn gradually builds tension. The descriptive setting in this section also heightens tension as it contrasts with the narrative throughout the rest of the novel; it differs from the mundane picture of the road, on which they are travelling, as normally things are described very neutrally and unemotionally by afternoon the slush had melted, off the road and by evening it was dry,'. As the tension builds through the vivid ...

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