Isolation In The Novel The Road

Isolation may be the reason that there is lack of spirituality in the novel The Road. The main protagonists are isolated from human interactions most of the time by their own will and the worlds. It is widely believed in Christianity that each suffering is some sort of test to the believers; it appears that the God has forsaken the world that is portrayed in this novel, since the people have no other choice, but to stay alone or join groups which have lost all their humanity and plunged to the primitivity so only they could survive; leaving their past desires forgotten. The title of the novel The Road is a symbol, which strongly emphasizes that post-apocalyptic fiction revolves around the idea of isolation. The road in which the main protagonists

The road is not the only thing that shows the isolation. McCarthy never stops emphasizing the idea of isolation as it is the "key" point that the author is trying to transmit to the readers "Out there was the gray beach with the slow combers rolling dull and leaden and the distant sound of it. Like the desolation of some alien sea breaking on the shores of a world unheard of. Out on the tidal flats lay a tanker half careened. Beyond that the ocean vast and cold and shifting heavily like a slowly heaving vat of slag and then the gray squall line of ash. He looked at the boy". (McCarthy 2006, 112). The "gray beach" (grey in UK) and the "desolation of some alien sea" are referring to the loneliness and emptiness of this dying world. It is known that the colour grey represent sadness and it is considered to be a lifeless colour which can be associated with the loneliness and isolation, and McCarthy masterfully uses the colour grey with the sea to symbolize the emptiness of the entire world as the oceans are connected through entire world. The words" Like the desolation of some alien sea" holds two major aspects which are associated with the