Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: The child the father of the man.

A book that plunges you into a world horrific to the core. But echos of truth permeate the bloody landscape. There are images that stay with you forever - the killing of the puppies, the Judge bathing in the town bath, (of course) the Comanche attack, the removal of the arrow. Many more. A pessimistic view of human nature, or the "human condition", but not necessarily an inaccurate one. Who knows what dwells in the soul of man? The first sentence, "See the child." should rank with the first in Moby Dick as one of the best remembered in literature. Is what we see in the child in the pages that follow a valid reflection of human nature? Could a band of such revolting criminals have ever roamed the face of the earth? Is violence/evil within us, part of our nature? McCarthy studies the young boy and says of him - "All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man."