About "The Road"

I found that the novel by Cormac McCarthy was a very interesting read. The post-apocalyptic setting that the audience is given at the very beginning of the novel starts the fear for the father and son. I think that this is an amazing novel that could very well be helpful to push society to reduce the pollution in the atmosphere because of the horrific images that "The Road" leaves with the reader. / Throughout the novel we are never privy to the name of the father and son. This lack of information has an effect that I had not realized. By refraining from naming the two main characters the author has made it so that they could be anyone, you and your father, your brother and father, it makes the experiences that they go through a lot more personal. By doing this McCarthy has written a books the touches everyone because the environment that the father and son live in is not so impossible with the way that we are pollution and living now./ The recurring image of “carrying the fire” has great significance in “The Road.” When the little boy talks about carrying the fire and others that also carry the fire, he is talking about goodness, hope, love, everything that the world before him no longer has but had before the unexplained apocalypse. At the beginning of the novel McCarthy begins with a lot of dark imagery while at the end after the father has died, the boy finds others who “carry the fire” and the boys prospects are looking up after the death of his father. /