The post-apocalyptic world has neither law enforcement nor resources for food. Most of the people are dead while a few remaining are starving and insanely compete for food. Extremely driven by their instinct for survival, a group of people becomes cannibals like animal. In this circumstance, there is a simple rule to preserve the principle of ethic. The bad guys eat people but the good guys don’t. Throughout the story, the protagonists consistently try to keep this moral principle to be “good guys” even though somehow they lose all faiths: “if he [the man] is not the word of God God never spoke” (McCarthy
The post-apocalyptic world has neither law enforcement nor resources for food. Most of the people are dead while a few remaining are starving and insanely compete for food. Extremely driven by their instinct for survival, a group of people becomes cannibals like animal. In this circumstance, there is a simple rule to preserve the principle of ethic. The bad guys eat people but the good guys don’t. Throughout the story, the protagonists consistently try to keep this moral principle to be “good guys” even though somehow they lose all faiths: “if he [the man] is not the word of God God never spoke” (McCarthy