Mental And Psychological Struggle In Madam Pomfrey's The Road

“Thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else,” Madam Pomfrey. Through the novel The Road characters were faced with mental and psychological struggles that will lead up to either a demise or continued life. The mental and psychological struggles found throughout the novel could be in any of the characters Psychological struggles were in the father, the son, the mother, the man whom was shot by the father, the elder man, and anyone else that was living in a world that was literally dying if not already dead. Starting with the father’s psychological struggles, the first being his wife’s death. When his wife committed suicide he felt like it was his fault as seen on page 38, “The dream bore the look of sacrific but he thought …show more content…
When the boy and father first witness the elder man they went up to him to see who he was and if may needed any help, when they did this he showed signs of psychological struggles just by the way he reacted, seen on page 188, “The old man shook his head from side to side, his fingers laced in his filthy hair. They boy looked up at his father. Maybe he thinks we’re not real.” For this man to not think these two people, that are clearly there, aren’t even real is an identifier that he probably had psychological struggles throughout his time traveling around. Furthermore he has been on the earth for quite a while since he is an elder man, but he mentions that he has also known that the world would turn out the way that it did, which is mentioned on page 193, “I was always on the road. You can’t stay in one place. I knew this was coming. You knew it was coming? Yeah. This or something like it. I always believed in it. Did you try to get ready for it? No.” For him to say that he knew that shows that whatever he was going through in his life he believed the world was coming to an end, even then he didn’t try to prepare for it, he didn’t recognize it well enough to save