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The Theme Of Innocence In The Road

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In The Road, as the father and son continues their fight for survival, we discover the father’s relentless efforts to maintain human goodness and preserve the son’s sense of innocence. The boy’s repeated questions, “Are we still the good guys?”, “Can’t we help him, Papa?” reflects how even the father who tries to be categorically defined as the good ones must at times resort to abandoning morality. Hence, the son becomes a symbol of innocence, curiosity and wonder as he tells his father, “In the stories we’re always helping people. But we don’t help people. We just shoot people.” The juxtaposition between reality and the stories highlights the power of childish innocence that allows the father to hold onto a semblance of civility, as he discovers
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