Friday, February 11, 2011
The Road
So I really need to crack down in reading The Road, but even where I am at in the book is beginning to show the desperation in the father and son's situation. After the father had to kill the man that had grabbed his son, everything else seemed to go down hill more, if that was even possible. The father had to wash out the man's blood and insides off of his own son, with freezing, painful, cold water. It's snowing. And they are running out of food. How much worse could this get for this family? Even through the desperation and hard times they are going through, I can feel sense the love between the two which at this point, I find, is there only hope.
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I agree with you..even on the cracking down..but I find myself on edge when I think about the child going through the cold weather and starving all the way. And with all of this still happening, he still cares about the people they encounter and the relation between those people and his father and himself. This is seen when he asks are they still the good people..and in such a world how does he know about good?
ReplyDeleteI like how you made a connection between love. throughout the entire book, I struggled with the idea of love in the story; I knoew that the man loved the boy simply because the man kept living, but the boy was always caring and compassionate towards others on the road. It was not until the end where I was really able to say, "yes the boy does love the man".
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. When the father had to kill that man, it really showed the desperation and the reality of the cannibalism problem that, after you do read further, is reinforced with the disturbing scene from the basement of that house. It is amazing how well the boy did take in all of this stuff and still hold on to his innocence. The father did say later in the book that something had changed in the boy, and he did not think it would ever change back basically; i believe he was referring to the basement scene and from the scene you were talking about. The author uses very effective imagery throughout the book to reinforce his themes. Their love is the only thing that will be able to keep them alive through this terrible, dark world.
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