An end possible?
The road is the story of an earth that has become post-apocalyptic because of a cataclysm of unknown reason, which has ravaged all living things on the surface of the earth, plants, animals, only a few humans have survived but in very dramatic conditions because of the cold, hunger, and the rivalry between the other survivors who are rather terrible, theft for the kindest, cannibalism for the most desperate. The story is centered on a father and son, completely desperate, completely destitute, who decide to go on a road south, towards the sea in search of hope, of a possibility of survival because we feel, every minute, every second of reading that death is potentially approaching, whether by cold, disease and men, here, the expression "man is a wolf to man" has never had so much meaning.
A crucial choice
What interested me a lot in the book, something very depressing is: why survive? in such a devastated world, there are a lot of philosophical questions about: wouldn't it be better to die? The father and the son have more or less directly this discussion, the son himself says that he would have preferred to be dead, and the mother if she is no longer there it is because she made this choice more or less.
Too many questions, few answers
This novel written by Cormac McCarthy in 2006, makes me ask several questions about our future, how will it be? happier? sadder? dystopian? utopian? apocalyptic? will there really be a future? Given that I'm writing to myself for fifty years from now I think I'll have, and when you have the answer, and given the news at the time I'm writing this article, 2022, I think you have a rather complicated future, if you have one.
