The Road - Cormac McCarthy End

Hope is a topic that McCarthy shows throug out The Road. The hope that give the father to his child eventhough the world has been dstroyed. The father created a magical world to the boy from his memories. "In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice
but he thought differently." (McCarthy 16). Here this is one of the fathers dream; he dreamed often with the mother.
"I wish I was with my mom.(...)
You musnt say that.(...)
We're survivors "McCarthy 28)
Here the it seem the child wants to surrender towards the situation they have been summited to  but, the father tells him they are "survivors" and I think that this might given strenght and hope to the boy.

"We're still the good guys.

And we always will be.

Yes. We always will be." (McCarthy 39)
The boy was worried of converting into one of the cannibals because the conditions they live in were very harsh. McCarthy shows the reader how still the father continues giving hope to his child.

"You're going to be okay, Papa. You have to.

No I'm not. Keep the gun with you at all times. You need to find the good guys

but you cant take any chances. No chances. Do you hear?" (McCarthy 149)
The father was strugulling to live untile he realized that he come to an end. The boy noticed it and the father gave him support and hope by telling him that there were still good people out there and eventhough they were on the south the boy had to continue his journey. And so the boy did and found a new family.