In post-apocalyptic stories, the world is portrayed in a disastrous and devastating form. The death of animals or human beings would be such a normal phenomenon under the circumstance, and everything is saturated with sadness and desperation. However, there is usually still a small number of survivors who demonstrate love and morality, being the last hope of humanity. In The Road written by Cormac McCarthy, the survived father and son are two typical examples of this idea. They show love and kindness to each other and the people they meet.
It must take tons of efforts for the father to take care of the boy in the post-apocalyptic world, and it is the love to his son that gives him strength to overcome all the difficulties encountered. When passing through a city, “he kept the pistol to hand on the folded …show more content…
At the beginning part of the story, they luckily find a Coca Cola, and the father gives it to the boy. After trying it the first time in his life, the boy repeatedly asks his father to have some too, even though his father refuses at first. The boy seems more mature than his peers and understands his father’s thoughts. He knows that his father is satisfied to watch him to drink it, and Coca Cola is indeed very delicious. However, the boy has no intention to enjoy it by himself but shares with his father, who he believes actually loves drinking Coca Cola. Through the story, the boy wants to help his father more, but what he can do is very limited. When the boy is waken up by his father’s coughing sound at night, though not very close, he certainly feels disturbed and helpless. He pretends to sleep, as he knows that his father will not want to find him waken up by the coughing sound, which will makes his father feel guilty. The boy does whatever he can to care about his father and make his father feel relieved in the post-apocalyptic
It must take tons of efforts for the father to take care of the boy in the post-apocalyptic world, and it is the love to his son that gives him strength to overcome all the difficulties encountered. When passing through a city, “he kept the pistol to hand on the folded …show more content…
At the beginning part of the story, they luckily find a Coca Cola, and the father gives it to the boy. After trying it the first time in his life, the boy repeatedly asks his father to have some too, even though his father refuses at first. The boy seems more mature than his peers and understands his father’s thoughts. He knows that his father is satisfied to watch him to drink it, and Coca Cola is indeed very delicious. However, the boy has no intention to enjoy it by himself but shares with his father, who he believes actually loves drinking Coca Cola. Through the story, the boy wants to help his father more, but what he can do is very limited. When the boy is waken up by his father’s coughing sound at night, though not very close, he certainly feels disturbed and helpless. He pretends to sleep, as he knows that his father will not want to find him waken up by the coughing sound, which will makes his father feel guilty. The boy does whatever he can to care about his father and make his father feel relieved in the post-apocalyptic