The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, the author of the fictional novel, The Road, uses the tone of console to help the reader understand how the father help the son through the apocalypse stage when his mother left. Knowing that the mother of the little boy will leave and not come back of him in anyway, the father tried to get the mother to say goodbye to the little boy. "Will you tell him goodbye? No. I will not. Just wait till morning. Please. I have to to. She had already stood up."(Page 49) The mother of the little boy do not care about how her leaving can affect the little boy. She's right now only thinking of herself, even though she won't survive alone, she rather be alone. " He sank down and put his hand on top of his head, God, he said." (page 62) The little boy's father is trying his best to keep the son and himself alive and it seemed like he's overwhelmed by the situation that has been brought upon him. And now he's reaction was to call on God for guideness. "My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you. Do you understand?" (Page 77) Not knowing what he meant by he was appointed by God to take care of him, but i believe that the father knows that he's the only person the boy has in his life and he thinks that that was Go's plan from the beginning. McCarthy uses the tone of console to help the reader understand why the father is doing everything he can to protect the little boy. By that the reader know that if the boy was to be alone and without no one, he wouldn't be able to survive the post apocalypse stage of life.

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