What Is The Theme Of Alienation In The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

I Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, two characters, the man and the boy, are living through a cataclysmic disaster that destroyed every normal way of life. They have to fight the cold and other human threats, while staying moral. The author uses a rift from home to illuminate that companionship is the key to life that the boy and the man experience through enrichments between characters and alienation of others. Companionship between the man and the boy enrich their lives through tough situations. The only people in the entire story that the man and the boy trust are each other. In an amoral world, they have to learn to trust each other’s judgements for survival, like the few times the man told the boy to hide from the lifeless people that eat anything they can find, including human flesh. Along with staying away from the amoral people, the man has a gun with one round left for his son if they ever get into a troubling situation. The man loves his son so much that if he gets captured or killed, he wants his son to join his absence by taking his life with the single round left in the …show more content…
When the disaster hit, the boy and the man lived with a woman, the boy’s mom. They live a nomadic lifestyle that the woman could not handle. The isolation from a normal life and regular companionship overtook her and she killed herself. The man and the boy have a difficult time without the only woman they had left. They fell apart without their linked companionship until they let that moment stay in the past and link with each other. As time continues the man makes decisions, like leaving a random child that may soon die, making the boy depart from his father. With the boy being extraordinarily moral, times get tough when they are not able to cooperate and the risk the chance of losing their lives if they cannot work together. Besides the man and the boy’s minor alienating moments, they experienced more serious isolation