This passage from McCarthy The Road, a post-apocalyptic fiction novel, stresses on the idea that resources are so scarce, that the main character described them in simple sentences, sentence fragments, and repeated multiple times to reveal the astonishment among him to his son. During this time, the Protagonist and his son are currently starving. Trying to find what they can to eat, they walk near a small town. After looting a tool shed, he walked off and felt something under the grass. Right under the grass was a secret bunker followed by a couple of stairs that go down. The father descended downstairs and found an enormous amount of food and water that can last them days. As the man sees the food, he is surprised that there was so much. He