The year is unknown, the date is a mystery. The world has turned into a dry, barren, and monochrome wasteland. They are living in a full-blown apocalypse. There are extremely sparse resources, abandoned structures with nothing left to scavenge, deranged cannibals, and dark nihility. Chaos has become normal, and it’s every man for themselves. Locating everyday objects is like finding priceless treasure, and the mortality rate is increasing drastically. The pressure of survival itself is enough to drive a person into outright lunacy. In “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, The Man - our nameless protagonist - is isolated in the world, and his only associate left with him is The Boy, who is The Man’s nameless son. The Man needs to help him and The
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The man is even able to save his son from a man who was holding a knife to his throat by shooting him point blank, and right between the eyes. When he is washing the guts out of his son’s hair, he finally embrace the fact that this is his job. He is responsible for keeping The Boy alive, and that is enough of a goal in his mind to continue fighting for their lives. The man at first did not want to continue, he had said multiple times before that he did not want to continue. He wanted to give up, but the boy was his light in the darkness. He helped him embrace his true meaning in life, which was to help others reach safety. Sadly, the man’s illness results in him passing away before they reach the south, and the boy gets taken in by another group of survivors. We as readers never learn if the boy makes it to the south, or if the group of people who took in The Boy are actually good guys or not. The group says that they have another little boy with them, but we never learn if it is the same little boy that he ran into earlier. We do not get a conclusive ending, and a lot of things are left up in the air untouched and unsolved, which allows the reader to think up their own ending, and interpret the conclusion in their own
The man is even able to save his son from a man who was holding a knife to his throat by shooting him point blank, and right between the eyes. When he is washing the guts out of his son’s hair, he finally embrace the fact that this is his job. He is responsible for keeping The Boy alive, and that is enough of a goal in his mind to continue fighting for their lives. The man at first did not want to continue, he had said multiple times before that he did not want to continue. He wanted to give up, but the boy was his light in the darkness. He helped him embrace his true meaning in life, which was to help others reach safety. Sadly, the man’s illness results in him passing away before they reach the south, and the boy gets taken in by another group of survivors. We as readers never learn if the boy makes it to the south, or if the group of people who took in The Boy are actually good guys or not. The group says that they have another little boy with them, but we never learn if it is the same little boy that he ran into earlier. We do not get a conclusive ending, and a lot of things are left up in the air untouched and unsolved, which allows the reader to think up their own ending, and interpret the conclusion in their own