Symbolism Of God In The Road

God never really actually presented himself in Papa’s and the young boy’s life. During the travel of papa and the boy, God the symbol of hope and faith was exactly what papa and the boy didn't feel… Many times did they almost die with the luck and smart thinking of papa but that is all.. There were no miracles from God... all but pure luck…
God can be used as a symbol of having faith in something, such as achieving the goal that you want to accomplish or in other words to have the hope of surviving in an postapocalyptic world where you're hoping to survive to make it to a new day.
In the book The Road, The faith and hope in god by papa and the boy was something minimal, after every time that they come close to dying or anything like that their …show more content…
And he said “If he is not the word of God God then never spoke.” (pg 5). All shows that if the young boy is the meaning of papa to keep going to find the boy and himself a safe place to be, by filling the man up with the willingness to keep going even if there is a God or not. Even throughout their journey of finding a safe place to stay they always seem to come by the most amazing of miracles. As they come across a shelter underground under a hatch (pg 125) giving them the most overjoy of hope, as they came in the saw shelves of food barrels of water and beds, this view gave the two hope and to the point where papa said “there is no God” (pg 143). They actually pray giving all a whole different view showing that God does exist and hasn't forgotten about them. After the many situations throughout the journey,papa and the boy came across many times where they had their faith doubted and doubted against god, but usually papa. But the young boy felt like giving up so many times but papa gave the boy hope so that the boy would live and be his own hope to keep