The Road Less Traveled

Alright, last blog about The Road, three on the same topic surprisingly enough...let's do this. So one of the most important elements in The Road that i noticed was the importance of the father's interaction with his son. The father grew up in a world before what is probably the apocalypse happened. His son though seemingly never knew of this world. Several times in the novel the father dreams of the world as it was before it ended. He remembers what it was like before it was all ashy and grey and tries to explain to his son what the world was like. Another example of this is when they stop at a supermarket and they father finds a Coca-Cola for his son and the son has never seen this or tasted it before. The father gives it to his son and lets him have it all because he had enough of it in the old world to know what it is like, but his son does not because he grew up in this harsh new world and has never seen a Coke before. This exchange shows how father is still trying to raise his son right in a world that is literally Hell on Earth.