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Cormac Mccarthy The Road Theme

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The Road theme essay
Princess Diana once said, “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is about the world we know turning upside down and is filled with things we cannot imagine. It focuses on a father and a son’s journey, surviving their way through this so called “life”. The boy and papa both have faith in each other and in staying humane which leads to the survival of the apocalyptic world.
Faith between the boy and papa is shown throughout the book. The boy trusts that papa will protect him from all harm. They had just escaped from the cannibals. The boy and papa was traveling and was eating what they had left.
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