The book “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy is a post-apocalyptic fiction book. It’s a story about a man with a young boy walking south to find there way to the coast for a presumed better life through a nuclear winter. Although the book doesn’t state where it’s taking place, one can infer that it’s somewhere in the United States. The major characters of this book are the man and the young boy. The man is the opposite of an open book, personality wise. He has no one to talk to about his thoughts because him and his son are alone. His words are plain and simple, yet interesting. All he does is care for the boy the best way he can. Whenever they encounter strangers he is stern because he wants to keep his son safe. The boy on the other hand voices his thoughts. If he has a question, he will ask it. The boy as well cares about his father. The boy is strong when need to be, but is also compassionate towards strangers. The whole book is based on the journey of both the father and child. The whole conflict of the book is that the boy and the father are trying to get to the coast by surviving the horror of storms, winter, cannibalism, and most of all, the …show more content…
The work Cormac McCarthy did on this book was quite interesting. He put a lot of thought into this book. The way he left some characters unnamed and how simple the mans replies were written, kept me on my feet for more. This book was interesting to read because it focused on things that could happen to us at one point which was insightful. It was sad and horrifying what was going on yet, kept you wanting more. This book exceeded my expectations. Going into this book I thought it would be tedious, but it caught me by surprise and I ended up loving it. I wish the author could have given us a little insight of how this post-apocalyptic world came to be in the book. This would have given a little more context to the whole point of the post-apocalyptic world and would've made it even more