This shows the tender loving relationship between father and son. This loving relationship sets the tone for the novel. In a world of death and darkness, their solitary souls hold each other together.
This is a subtle reference to the biblical tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale. The father and son are forced to survive in a world of purgatory and entropy, much like the stomach of a whale. This illustrates the desolate world in which the pair live in.
This quote demonstrates the theme of mortality. Death surrounds the pair, and the world itself is slowly dying. The quote highlights the fact that the dad acknowledges they will eventually die. The boy, asking questions he already knows the answers to, sees his father as his refuge and single source of knowledge.
Represents a major theme of love in The Road. The only thing that keeps each person alive is the other person. If the father has lost his son, he would have …show more content…
He organizes everything from his past life neatly-his entire identity before the apocalypse. The man plans to leave behind his old self and carry on in the new world. It highlights how factitious our society is, and how much little it matters when society is destroyed.
The boy’s reaction to this horrible scene of violence is unusual. The expression “mute as a stone” shows how shell-shocked the boy’s developing mind is, not even flinching at this event. The chaos and fear of this world has taken a large psychological impact on the young boy, whose reaction to violence is not of fear, but of indifference.
Again, the man's reaction to such a horrific sight is strange. The man does not focus on the corpse, but instead is so focused on survival, that he takes the blankets wrapped around the corpse, without any respect for the dead. The scene demonstrates how individualistic humans have become. In the face of disaster, every person will fight only for
This is a subtle reference to the biblical tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale. The father and son are forced to survive in a world of purgatory and entropy, much like the stomach of a whale. This illustrates the desolate world in which the pair live in.
This quote demonstrates the theme of mortality. Death surrounds the pair, and the world itself is slowly dying. The quote highlights the fact that the dad acknowledges they will eventually die. The boy, asking questions he already knows the answers to, sees his father as his refuge and single source of knowledge.
Represents a major theme of love in The Road. The only thing that keeps each person alive is the other person. If the father has lost his son, he would have …show more content…
He organizes everything from his past life neatly-his entire identity before the apocalypse. The man plans to leave behind his old self and carry on in the new world. It highlights how factitious our society is, and how much little it matters when society is destroyed.
The boy’s reaction to this horrible scene of violence is unusual. The expression “mute as a stone” shows how shell-shocked the boy’s developing mind is, not even flinching at this event. The chaos and fear of this world has taken a large psychological impact on the young boy, whose reaction to violence is not of fear, but of indifference.
Again, the man's reaction to such a horrific sight is strange. The man does not focus on the corpse, but instead is so focused on survival, that he takes the blankets wrapped around the corpse, without any respect for the dead. The scene demonstrates how individualistic humans have become. In the face of disaster, every person will fight only for