Assignment #2

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a fictional post-apocalyptic novel that depicts a man and his son alone throughout burned America landscape, and has shown great desire in surviving has topped the hardest environment. The boy in this novel is the character that has shown demise help to a man as it illuminates the meaning of desperate of assisting as a whole. When the boy sees the man passing, his emotion, "when he looked the boy was crying"(218)has caught the man back to save the father and son. McCarthy uses a man as a symbol of hope, with a back from hell theme in this moment,the author's purpose is to illustrate to the reader that there is still a chance of surviving in the cold winter road. After the man decide to help the father and son, he has given them assistant, the man" was outcast from one of the communes and the fingers of his right hand had been cut"(255), as a theme of destruction from the boy, with the purpose of physical action was necessary from  the man to the boy, the author wanted the readers to know that the boy was injured and needed help with his wound. Finally, since of improvement from the father and so, " he waited in the road and when the man came out of the woods he was carrying the suitcase"(285), theme of survival has been created by McCarthy, with a comfortable tone, for a purpose to show to the reader that the father and son has overcome their worse and survived the horrifying terror. The boy has shown tremendous amount of emotion, and it is a method to seek out help from the man, therefore it is a demise help from the boy to illuminate meaning of survival.