The Road - Cormac McCarthy 1

Survival Changes 360º

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a book that has shoked me of what I have read. The key to life is survival and I know that people do what the can to survive. For example in "el monte" when people have been kid-napped some of them have survived because of the way they have interacted and faced reality. In this book the father has been protecting his child from everything, even in his sleep. He wakes up and the fist thing he does is touch his child verifying he is still there. He always carries a revolver with three bullets but, he used one because one of the canibals tried to kid-nap his child. In this scene we can see how the father does what he can to help his child survive by shooting the man and running away with his kid on the back.

The father and the boy are constantly surviving through out the story. There has been a natural disaster and there are no more crops, animal and people are famishing. They have to face a strong winter that makes them each time weaker and weaker. Their goal is getting to the coast were they think they might have a better way of life. This could be related to the people that have been "desplazado/a" and have had to survive with the only thing they have with them, most of the time their family. The desplazados have to continue with their lifes and try to do as much as they can to survive, like the man had to shoot a canibal that wanted to kid-nap is child. I do not think that the desplazados would do that but, I do belive that might risk many thing to save their love ones.