The Road The Man And The Fire Quotes

In the book The Road the man and the boy kept saying “we are carrying the fire” the author kept bringing this quote back into the book when the man and the boy had little hope left. This quote is a symbol of hope and a sign that if they keep going their will be a better outcome eventually. In the movie I am Legend some characters keep referencing the Bob Marley lyric “Light up the darkness” the main character Neville is trying to achieve his life motto, to cure the world of a disease that takes over people. The quote is saying that Neville wants to bring back light and goodness into the world. Both of these quotes they use in the book and the movie symbolize hope in desperate times of need and it shows the characters that good times are ahead. The characters in both of the stories get through very hard times but they preveal and believe that their are better times ahead.

In The Road the author keeps making the man or the boy say “We are carrying the fire”.

They keep saying this because it makes the boy and the man have hope that something good will come along, and to keep their spirits up even though there life is very hard and tiring. One scene in the book is when the boy asked the man if they would ever eat people, the man said no they would not the reason why was because “we are carrying the fire”. The man is showing the boy that carrying the fire is protecting them, no matter what happens to them that if they are carrying the fire they will be alright. The boy knows that if they are carrying the fire they have a sign of hope and that the world is not over and light will come through. Another scene in the book that brings up carrying the fire is when the father is dying. When the father is dying he tells the son that he now has to carry the fire alone, the boy hesitates because he doesn’t think he is ready for it and he doesn't want his father to leave him but the father knows he is ready. The son knows that he will always be carrying the

fire.
In the movie I am Legend the characters bring up the Bob Marley quote “Light up the darkness”. They bring that up in the movie because the main character Neville is in a world where “darkseekers” have taken over NYC. It is very quiet and lonely and it doesn't look like their is a lot of hope left, but he and another character Anna reference the quote. They reference the quote because it gives them hope and it shows them that they will eventually find or make a better life for themselves. Neville in the movie is trying to bring light back in to the world and back into his life, during the movie he keeps having scenes with the darkseekers and he is trying to find a cure for them so he can light up the darkness. In the movie Neville has to kill his dog because it got bitten and afterwards he does try to kill himself but someone saves him. Anna and her son save him from the darkseekers, Anna and the boy show him that even at his worst moment he should still have hope and that something better will come.
The authors have very good values about hope and life, they shows those values well in the movie and book. In the book and the movie it shows the watchers that you shouldn't take anything for granted and you should be happy with whatever you have. At the worst times of your life you could be thinking that there is no hope left and no good can come out of it, but the movie and the book show that, that concept is completely wrong. Even though the movie and the book are not the happiest movies/books they do teach you very good life lessons. They show these life lessons in post apocalyptic worlds because most people think of these worlds as hopeless and no good can come out of them. But the authors prove that even at the worst times you can still have hope and some good will come out of it.