Road+2010+Father+and+Son

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=This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job." pg. 74=

//"Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart."// ~Author Unknown
=== //"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."//~ **Clarence Budington Kelland** ===

=__ Citizen/ Solider: Three Doors Down __=

// You can rest your head. //
=__ My Sacrifice: Creed __=

// My sacrifice, My sacrifice //
=__ Collide: Howie Day __=

// Light up again //
=__ If You Only Knew: Shinedown __=

// In is you, if you only knew //
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__Analysis__

====The relationship of the father and son is the basis of McCarthy's //The Road// and is only highlighted by the desecration of the world. The circumstances around the father and son just focus their relationship in a way that no other situation could. Both the father and son love each other in a way that few families can currently understand. The father no longer has friends or any other family, and the son has only known his father and his mother, who left him. While it seems that the child would be scarred from the destruction around him the relationship between he and his father has provided strength and security in a ravaged world. Also the metaphorical fire is something that only a father a son can share and understand, when his father dies the boy still has the "fire" and can still talk to his father because they bonded closer than any father and son. The father has been faced with death, murder, cannibalism, theivery, starvation, homlessness, hopelessness and despair and yet the will to live for his son has never left him. The son has seen things in his few short years that most adults never see in their entire lives, and yet he still provideds an anchoring place and a sense of innocence in an otherwise cold world.====

=== > === Do the roles of the father and son change through the book? === > === How is the role of the father different in the book than in today's society? === > === Do you believe that any other father would do this for his child, or is there something different about this father in the book? === ===