'The Road' By Cormac Mccarthy

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The Road is the novel that written by Cormac McCarthy, an American novelist who won Pulitzer Prize, and it takes place after apocalyptic risky world. In addition, McCarthy show that even with dangers place, people, fear around the father and his son, they have a strong complex relationship than it seems, and how their relationship works. One important point is that whenever the kid is upset about something he goes to his father to talk about, yet it is not familiar to kids to kids to talk about whatever upset them to their parents. However, it shocking how the kid did not believe his father when the father said that they will not die, it is different than what the kids believe, most kids believe whatever their parents tell to them.

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