In the post-apocalyptic world that McCarthy has brought to life in The Road, a son and father struggle for the strength, courage and hope to continue searching for the lost world that is too far gone to remember and fight to survive the horrors that engulf them. On their journey through the gray and barren lands, every moment is a struggle for survival and every step becomes their only existence in a dead world. Yet there is hope. It is found in the fire, the warmth, the pistol and the little boy. At one point in the novel the little boy tells his father that he is the one who must worry about their future and in this brief moment, hope arises, only to be suffocated by the gray, endless ash.17 May 2007
In the post-apocalyptic world that McCarthy has brought to life in The Road, a son and father struggle for the strength, courage and hope to continue searching for the lost world that is too far gone to remember and fight to survive the horrors that engulf them. On their journey through the gray and barren lands, every moment is a struggle for survival and every step becomes their only existence in a dead world. Yet there is hope. It is found in the fire, the warmth, the pistol and the little boy. At one point in the novel the little boy tells his father that he is the one who must worry about their future and in this brief moment, hope arises, only to be suffocated by the gray, endless ash.
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Lauren,
I wonder what you made of McCarthy's decision to end with water, after so much ash. It's not that we haven't seen water before---there's the waterfall and the ocean, and the trout have made prior appearances---but the last paragraph is such a decisive and contrasting cap.
The boy says he's the one who, as you say, will bear the burden of the future. Then McCarthy shows us a trout with a map on its back. I'm curious about whether you think he's saying that nature has its own program and might survive / regenerate regardless of what we do.
CHD
CDH
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