Throughout The Road, the father and the son categorize the people they come across on their journey to the South as “bad guys” and “good guys”. The good guys refers to the father and the son. The father is the good guy in this book. The reason why i say this is because he was always there for his son. Always protecting him. He always told his son positive things, to not give up, that their is a better life ahead. Something good that he did was that he perseveres when in reality there was no hope for survival. “....everything depended on reaching the coast, yet . . . he knew that all of this was empty and no substance” (29). In this quote, the father is giving him and his son a reason to keep going and to live. Even tho he knows that it may
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Throughout the book, he made sacrifices where others would keep everything to themselves for their use of survival and resources. “We can't share what we have or we’ll die too” (52). What he means by this is that whatever he gives his son to eat, that's all for him, not for the father. His main concern is his son's life. All throughout the book. It doesn't matter to him if he goes without eating and weakens, his son is the most important thing. There were also cases where the father shot “bad Guys” cause they were trying to get to his son trying to kill him, holding him with a knife. And some may argue that the father is a bad guy for the reason of killing those guys, but if you think about it, he was doing that for self defence and the safety of his son. In this book, all the bad guys are cannibals. Which means that they eat human flesh for survival. The father isn't like that. There was a time when a man asked the father if he wanted to eat, human flesh, and the father refused because that's what is right. He is going to survive the right way, in a manner that won't harm others. The bad guys are the men with pipes, the ones that got off the truck to hurt his son, and the
Throughout the book, he made sacrifices where others would keep everything to themselves for their use of survival and resources. “We can't share what we have or we’ll die too” (52). What he means by this is that whatever he gives his son to eat, that's all for him, not for the father. His main concern is his son's life. All throughout the book. It doesn't matter to him if he goes without eating and weakens, his son is the most important thing. There were also cases where the father shot “bad Guys” cause they were trying to get to his son trying to kill him, holding him with a knife. And some may argue that the father is a bad guy for the reason of killing those guys, but if you think about it, he was doing that for self defence and the safety of his son. In this book, all the bad guys are cannibals. Which means that they eat human flesh for survival. The father isn't like that. There was a time when a man asked the father if he wanted to eat, human flesh, and the father refused because that's what is right. He is going to survive the right way, in a manner that won't harm others. The bad guys are the men with pipes, the ones that got off the truck to hurt his son, and the