Week 1 Post B

"Can I ask you something? he said.
Yes. Of course.
Are we going to die?
Sometime. Not now."

This quote happens just before the father and son go to bed in the middle of a barren field that is covered in ash. Although the reader doesn't know how old the son is, we are able to see that he is very scared and anxious about what is going to happen to them. The father, in this case, is asked an extremely difficult question but answers honestly, calmly and lovingly. I believe that most parents, when put in the same situation, would reassure their children that they will never die but the father from McCarthy's novel comes up with a clever way of giving the truth, without letting his son panic. McCarthy describes very little physical characteristics of the father and son but from quotes like these, we can see that the father has a very strong bond with his son to the point where he would sacrifice anything for him. I look forward to reading this book to find more about the nuclear devastation and how it effects the relationship between the father and son.