![]() ![]() Under these singularly bleak conditions, the boy's nature - his impulse to help, his anxiety about stealing others' food - is, of course, naive. I'd give that little boy half of my food." How to explain the necessity of abandoning others to certain death (or worse, in one particularly terrifying scene) while maintaining that they're "the good guys," the ones "carrying the fire"? They dont give up." Why, then, his son asks, won't he help the stragglers they run across instead of running from them or shooting at them? "We should go to him, Papa. ![]() "This is what good guys do," he tells him. "Are we still the good guys?" the boy asks in moments of confusion and shock. Apocalypse Now: Amid fire and torment, a man and his son endure the end of the world as we know it.: a review of The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Ron Charles, Washington Post)Ĭoncurrent with keeping his son alive is the more metaphysical challenge of sustaining his son's innate goodness while forcing him to witness the corruption of all moral behavior. ![]()
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