"The Road" Blog 5
The turning point in the book was when the father died. He died because he got shot by a bow in the leg by a man whom he killed directly after he got shot. The man died when they had reached the sea, holding his son by the hand. After the father had died, a man came and told the boy that he had a family that they had been following him and his father for a while, he also told the boy that he could come with them now when his dad had died. The boy who didn’t have many options to choose between asked the man if his family did ”carry the fire”, when he had explained it to the man and had been told that the man and his family were some of the ”good guys” he gladly followed them.
This is how the book ends. I think its a rather good end because a end like this opens many alternatives of how the boy will handle the apocalypse. Certainly there are people who didn’t like this end because there are very much missing in the solution when the book ends. When McCarthy wrote this end I think he wanted the readers to by them self figure out their own ending in their head.
