The man has shown he is very protective through out their journey. He ends up telling the boy to kill himself in order to protect him. He instructed the boy instructed in the boy in how to do it “You put it in your mouth and point it up” (McCarthy 113), incase he were to be caught by bloodcults. At one point the boy is grabbed by someone in the woods and the man shoots him to protect the boy. The man has had to be cold in order to be able to fully protect his child. The boy thinks he sees another boy and the boy says “We could get him and take him with us” (McCarthy 86), and the man says no for the safety of the boy.
