Loosing a loved one is never easy. It can be someone as close as a mom or a dad and maybe even someone we admire, like an artist. No matter who it is it will always hit close to our hearts. As we finish this book we encounter the last thing we ever thought, at least me, that would down one of our persevering character, illness.
After battling carnivorous assassins, hunger and cold for so long I actually expected that if the father was to be taken die he would die in a fight, maybe even a bloodbath, while protecting his son. The expected heroic death didn’t happen, he doesn’t die in a memorable fight, but he did try to do all he could to keep protecting his son even though he had to leave him. McCarthy tells us: ”No I’m not. Keep the gun with you at all times.”(Pg145) The father is clearly trying to do his everything to ensure that the little boy will stay alive and keep going south where supposed hope awaits him. The little boy tells him “I want to be with you”(pg145) again making it very clear that he would rather die than be left alone in the wasteland that has become Earth.
His father dies and the little boy’s options have been narrowed down to almost none. He has nowhere to go and no one to turn to, so he stays sitting by his dad’s dead body for 3 days. When he finally decides to go back to the road, even though if its just to do something, he encounters a man. This man has supposedly been tracking the boy and his son and now invites him to join his family. The little boy is convinced that this stranger is one of “the good guys” and leaves with him.
We are left with the doubt of what will happen to the little boy and who is this “good guy”. Questions that will probably never be answerd.
