Theme of "The Road"

            From my point of view, I think the theme of “The Road” is how people can react in such disparity. In this story specifically, the man and the boy are living in a world that is wiped out by some kind of human extinction, and they are living with the bare minimum. For example, throughout the story the man and boy search broken down houses and cars for any form of food. This goes on for several years. They do this on a daily basis, and the man promises the boy they would not resort to cannibalism like almost everyone else in the world that survived the extinction. In the end of the book, the father dies of a fever, which is kind of ironic because they both survived the big extinction, but a simple fever took down his father. It is a shame he had to leave his son on their ever long quest to find some trace of humanity in the inhumane world they were living in.