As I started reading The Road, there was something that strongly caught my eye. I started to ask myself: what happened to the world? In The Road, a man is traveling in the United States with his son. They are moving by foot, and they are consumed by a strong feeling of fear. And as they travel, the setting is depicted as gray and depressing. Everything is destroyed and there are bodies of dead people everywhere: "The long concrete sweeps of the interstate exchanges like the ruins of a vast funhouse against the distant murk...The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires" (McCarthy 24). This passage really caught my attention. It reminded me of the movie Terminator, where machines dominate the world and have as a mission to destroy the human kind. The few humans left hide as fugitives from the machines. They live in fear and they do anything they can to survive.
I thought this was kind of similar to The Road. The father and the son are moving across a country where everything is destroyed. Just like the characters in Terminator they live in hiding and in fear in a dangerous world. I'm still not sure what happened in the world of The Road, but I'm pretty sure that it might be something similiar to Terminator. For example, the father had a flashback in which he was talking to his wife right before the world changed. And his wife said something that had an impact on me: "Sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us. They will rape me. They'll rape him. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us" (McCarthy 56).
Maybe it's not machines what is destroying The Road's world, but whatever it is, it is something pretty horrible.
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