Father and Son

In the book we are reading in class, “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, it talks about a father and son that are living thru a disaster that just happened in the world. They are trying to survive the cold winter and are trying to go south. Somethi9ng significant of this is that they are surviving with each other, but while surviving the “apocalypse” they dad does things with the child that he would have done if this hadn’t happened. For example, the child tells him to read books to him (while on their way to the south) and the dad says yes.

The father and son in this book have a really good relationship, even though the age of the child or the man is unknown. His dad is trying to raise him the same way he would have raised him if everything was ok. The father still wants the child to experience stuff. Like when man found a can of Coca Cola instead of him drinking it he tells the child to drink it. This also shows that the father cares about the child and not just ignores him. If the dad wouldn’t care about the child he would have not taken care of him and not let him have things that the father would maybe not see in his life no more.

This father and his son is a great example of how a father and son should treat each other. They both cared a lot of each other and will do anything for the other. In the book the kid tell the father “what would you do if I died?” the father answered “if you died I would want to die too.”. This shows how much they care about each other and how good a relationship do they have.