Week 6 Post B

I feel terrible for the father! It must be hard bonding with your son when every day is a constant struggle to survive. By today's standards, every father want to make their child's life better in comparison to theirs but for the father in The Road, that dream seems pretty much impossible. As the reader, we are supposed to assume that the story starts somewhere in Minnesota at the exact time that the bombs are going off. Although McCarthy never states it, the son was born after all of the devastation. It must be hard on the father knowing that his son will never get to enjoy the many things that he did as a kid and as an adult. This is demonstrated when the father and son are looking up into the sky and notice some crows and the boy says,
"Could a crow fly so high that he flew into outer space?"
Normally for a 12 year old, a person might expect him to have some common sense but because the son hasn't ever gone to school and most of his knowledge is based on surviving, he has no idea what science, math or for the most part, reading is. I often times do think about what the world would be like if there was no civilization, if there were a just a few people on earth. I generally don't go that deep into my thoughts and I just pride myself on the fact that I am physically fit.