The Road Part A

The Road is a very depressing book. It may have been because while I read, I listened to music that fit the scenes too perfectly. When the novel described the home of the cannibals and the book noted the males and females in the basement (mainly the man with stumps), a dreary song came on just in time to give me goose bumps. When the man heard screams coming from the house, the lyrics “I’m going crazy" played and further frightened me. The novel seems to stress god a significantly large amount of times as well as displays the man's overwhelming love for the boy. As the man and boy talk, the quote "we carry the fire" comes up a noticeably large amount of times and I believe the novel does this to signify how much weight of humanity is barred by the boy and man. The boy and the man frequently talk about how they are "the good guys" and they will never eat another person. The novel does this to show that the "bad guys" are the cannibals and that if you eat other people it's "bad." This instrument of the novel allows for a yin yang effect so this way the reader can find a character or characters to support and have the balance of being able to hate or question another.