In the book, “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy talks about a son and his father’s journey in a post-apocalyptic background. However, they were not the only survivors living in this hopeless world, and as the story continues, the son and father encounters many people and they (mostly the son) questions about if they are good or bad. So how did they distinguish the the “good guys” from the “bad guys,” and were the protagonists actually the “good guys”?
In this book, a blasphemous act commonly done by many of the survivors was cannibalism. Unlike how cannibalism is prevalent in this world due to lack of food source, the son and father considers this what a “bad guy would do” and in even in a situation when both of them are starving to death, the …show more content…
Even though the son and his father consider themselves the “good guys” saying that “[they] always will be,” they did break into others houses and did kill other people. Can a person that has murdered someone else and robbed into places be considered a good person? Are they any different from the people who enslave others and eat them? Then are they all bad guys? My answer to this is “NO!” Although cannibalism and enslaving seem worse than robbery, just like how I said, it is just different ways people respond to desperate situations. Furthermore, if maintaining mankind is defined as “good,” I believe that the son and man are closer to being “bad” compared to the ones who consume other people since they are weak and inferior, not being able to survive and reproduce, compared to the ones who are willing to survive by any …show more content…
They believed that only people who hold morals and maintain sane were the one who carried the fire. This is shown by the son being occupied with themselves being the “good guy” because they were “carrying the fire.” He even believes a complete stranger after hearing a positive answer to his question: “Are you carrying the fire?” However, I want to see this “fire” little differently. I believe that everybody in this post-apocalyptic world carries their own fire and the fire in this context would signify the will to live. There is no moral of helping others and be kind anymore, the new moral in this world is to survive by any means necessary. The boy’s mother could be someone who stopped carrying one’s fire due to the fact she chose death herself, but those man-eaters could be considered fire carriers since they are not hesitant to do anything to
In this book, a blasphemous act commonly done by many of the survivors was cannibalism. Unlike how cannibalism is prevalent in this world due to lack of food source, the son and father considers this what a “bad guy would do” and in even in a situation when both of them are starving to death, the …show more content…
Even though the son and his father consider themselves the “good guys” saying that “[they] always will be,” they did break into others houses and did kill other people. Can a person that has murdered someone else and robbed into places be considered a good person? Are they any different from the people who enslave others and eat them? Then are they all bad guys? My answer to this is “NO!” Although cannibalism and enslaving seem worse than robbery, just like how I said, it is just different ways people respond to desperate situations. Furthermore, if maintaining mankind is defined as “good,” I believe that the son and man are closer to being “bad” compared to the ones who consume other people since they are weak and inferior, not being able to survive and reproduce, compared to the ones who are willing to survive by any …show more content…
They believed that only people who hold morals and maintain sane were the one who carried the fire. This is shown by the son being occupied with themselves being the “good guy” because they were “carrying the fire.” He even believes a complete stranger after hearing a positive answer to his question: “Are you carrying the fire?” However, I want to see this “fire” little differently. I believe that everybody in this post-apocalyptic world carries their own fire and the fire in this context would signify the will to live. There is no moral of helping others and be kind anymore, the new moral in this world is to survive by any means necessary. The boy’s mother could be someone who stopped carrying one’s fire due to the fact she chose death herself, but those man-eaters could be considered fire carriers since they are not hesitant to do anything to