The book, The Road by Cormac McCarthy displays a very powerful underlying message throughout the book. Love is something that we humans need in order to survive in this day an age anymore. Our world has become so destructed that we we need love in order to have hopes for the future and to keep us going in our everyday lives, without love there is no reason to look forward to the future such as the message in this book is showing us. After an apocalypse had struck, the man and they boy thought that they were the only good guys left leaving them to rely on one another for support. I believe that in the book, The Road the boy and the man rely on each others love and support, along with carrying the fire throughout there journey in order to survive in this post- apocalypse world.
Most of our world today relies on the feeling of being loved and accepted by one another, without this feeling most of us don’t see what the purpose of life is, we see no hope in the future instead we are depressed to see what the future will be like. Throughout …show more content…
Such as when the boy said “you think were going to die don’t you” then the papa said “were not going to die” then they boy replies back saying “we don’t have anything to eat” then they man says we’ll find something” (McCarthy, 100). I think that this examples provokes a good underlying message because it shows that they are staying positive to themselves that they’re going to survive and make it in this world, although sometimes I think the papa is a little hesitant he still is positive and assures the boy that they are going to survive because he sees hope through his son without his son he probably would see a need to keep moving traveling down the road. Much like our society we must keep positive and strengthen one another in times of crisis in order to survive in those
Most of our world today relies on the feeling of being loved and accepted by one another, without this feeling most of us don’t see what the purpose of life is, we see no hope in the future instead we are depressed to see what the future will be like. Throughout …show more content…
Such as when the boy said “you think were going to die don’t you” then the papa said “were not going to die” then they boy replies back saying “we don’t have anything to eat” then they man says we’ll find something” (McCarthy, 100). I think that this examples provokes a good underlying message because it shows that they are staying positive to themselves that they’re going to survive and make it in this world, although sometimes I think the papa is a little hesitant he still is positive and assures the boy that they are going to survive because he sees hope through his son without his son he probably would see a need to keep moving traveling down the road. Much like our society we must keep positive and strengthen one another in times of crisis in order to survive in those