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A superficial reading could classify this novel between those of science fiction. The world described by C. McC. is only desolation and destruction, no sun, cold, submerged by the ashes of an extinguished fire caused by an unknown planetary disaster.
A man and a child traveling through the ruins of a world reduced to ashes in the direction of the ocean, where maybe a mirage of a cool pale sun now will give a bit 'of warmth and some glimmers of life. carrying with it the way everything in the new balance of things have value: a shopping cart with the little bit 'of food they make up a plastic sheet for shelter from the freezing rain and a gun with which to defend themselves from gangs of robbers who beat the streets determined to survive at all costs. And then the most valuable asset: themselves and their love for each other.
"We'll get through, right, Dad?
Yes we'll get.
And there's nothing bad will happen.
Exactly.
Because we bring the fire.
Yes Why we bring the fire "

The road is a book written. Because it is within us. The author has done as Michelangelo, has eliminated the superfluous material to extract the original one. The prose is lean and dry. Gives the reader the emotions aroused by the desolate landscape, the essential dialogue between father and son who became a symbol of the continuity of life seemingly came to extinction according to the human parameters.
is a book to interpret the symbols that the author has scattered on every page.
The child is helpless, the hungry cold requires protection, knowing that his father assures him of being close to death, to assure the survival and continuity of life. The child is the Messiah, the bearer of the fire symbol of hope that despite everything does not go off. Through nature's ability to move forward, to continue to survive in whatever form, to regenerate themselves indefinitely, McCarthy shows us a way not to succumb even when all around is death and desolation. Along the road heading south towards the sea (another symbol: water generator of life) each time left without food or blankets, every ounce of energy that sustains them in the imagination makes them find new resources and the journey continues. These events are comparable to the vicissitudes of daily ups and downs of us all.

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