Bible And Religion In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road

In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the author makes various references to the Bible and to religion. Those references also can be compared on how they have changed the way of humans in real life. Along with how the boy maintains his innocence throughout this whole book even when he witnessed events that could’ve changed him. The man tried to the best of his abilities to preserve the innocence of the boy. Through all of the obstacles that they both faced, the man managed to keep the boy safe and even in his last moments he was sure that he taught his boy how to tell when people were good.

It can be said that religion is one of the most controversial topics in our time. Everyone has their own different opinion of how they want to interpret religion,

but there are always some common things that can be picked out from any religion and that is the image of a prophet or a messianic figure. That can be seen in McCarthy’s book that the boy is seen in the image of a Messiah, because he has been kept pure throughout all of the havoc that has happened. There was an instance when the father was looking at the boy and he thought: “Then he just sat there holding his binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: if he is not the word of God God never spoke” (McCarthy, 5). Shelly Rambo asks the question of, “how are we to interpret this language within the context of a world that bas collapsed? The context is critical here. How do we read images such as the breath of God and the messianic references to the boy after the end of the world?” (Rambo 104).