The Road

Blog #2

          In the book, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the relationship the man has with his son is quite interesting.  The only thing that pushes the man to go forward with his decisions is his son. However, even though the man tries to do everything within his power to protect his son, he still thinks whether he would be able to kill his son. This is mostly due to the fact that he does not want his son to suffer through the torture of cannibals, starvation, or sickness. Its quite terrifying imagining how to kill someone, especially if that someone is a relative. Though this does go over the fact of "putting the dog down." Which again makes you finally understand why the man has the revolver in the first place. However, the gun itself has only two shells, and during the story the man uses one. So now they have one bullet. What the man tells the boy is to use it not on the cannibals but himself, since the man shows that he does not have the power to kill his son.