Cormac McCarthy, in his novel The Road, explores the idea of faith by including moments when characters reach into the depths of their own faith and contemplate whether there be a presence of God. This faith is not always found in positive aspects of these characters’ lives, but more in the situations of complete doubt and desperation. McCarthy explores the idea of faith being something that people rely on when they are suffering; it gives them hope in a hopeless world, and they crave its presence despite their philosophical beliefs about its reality. This presence of faith in a completely hopeless world shows McCormac’s belief in how people look for something other than themselves, something they cannot quite reach, as a guiding light that keeps them alive in times of no hope. …show more content…
Often times, when the man is faced with a difficult situation, like that of death or confusion, he questions the intentions of God. It is as if he cannot understand why God’s world could come to the point where there is “no sign of life” and his son is asking him about his own death (11). He does not understand God’s allowance for destruction results in hopelessness, all while being “nameless in the night” (15). He does not feel that God “knows nothing” about the torture he is inflicting upon his “prophets,” he believes God “must” know what he is allowing, and because he is almighty to the man, he has a reason (15,