What Is The Theme Of The Road By Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac McCarthy’s, The Road is a story of love. Although the characters are nameless, the reader cannot help but grow to love the boy and the man and develop a deep and personal connection with them. Despite all the negative situation they’re in, there is so much positive that comes out of this story. This story is taken place in a post-apocalyptic waste land where people are literally fighting to stay alive, killing other people just to eat them, reproducing only to eat the new born and kidnapping tons of people who are stored in basements to be eaten later. The man and the boy are known as “good guys.” The man always carries a gun with him and because the boy is so focused on remaining a “good guy,” he hates that his father even has it. The gun only has two bullets, one for the man to use and the last one for the boy to use. When the man does end up using the gun,

At one point in the story the boy gets sick and the man fears the son will die until he discovers he is having bad dreams still. According to the man, if you dream positive things that means you are giving up and that death is coming soon whereas if you dream bad things, you are still strong and holding onto life. The boy recovers and the man gets worse. There are multiple times where the reader stops and realizes that there is a love here that is unexplainable and puts themselves in the characters shoes. For example, when the son receives a haircut from his father, when they play in the waterfall together, and when they press on through this journey together when death seems very near; all those times make you think; they make a personal connection to a father-son bond but even more so, a child-parent bond. It made me think of times that my mother and I went through hard times, clearly never as severe as these characters but we pressed on and got through and still enjoyed our time and love together. It sends a powerful