Cormac McCarthy

     One major theme in Cormac McCarthy's novel the road is the father son relationship, in which i touched upon in an earlier Blog. It's weird that "the man" and "the boy" in the novel was actually Cormac, and his son. Within the road the boy asked the man about dying and are they going to die and these conversations were actual conversations that McCarthy and his son had. When you think about the road, they were in an apocalyptic state so the boy asking about death was somewhat common or made sense, but McCarthy's son asking "Papa, what would you do if I died?" in a time like this is somewhat odd. It seems as if McCarthy is saying that the world we're in now is in a somewhat apocalyptic state also. which connects back to the poem Dinosauria, we where Charles Bukowski describes how the world would one day be in a similar condition as the world the man and boy live in, within the road. Now the questions is what could McCarthy's son have experienced to say something that a child within a destroyed world would ask to his dad, or is our world how it is now in an apocalyptic state already. Maybe our sons, and daughters and sisters, and brothers are already being brought up in a world where they find the need to ask their parents... "are we going to die?"  or "Papa, what would you do if I died?". Well, How Do YOU Like Those Apples?