The Road: Surrounded By Hostile Environments.

There are days where simply things can't go any worse. That day everything happens to you and the more you try to make it better the more bad things happen to you. Some people say that it is only the way you look at the day that makes it feel like everything is bad but I say there are days where everything goes wrong. In these days you might fights with your parents, you might break up with your girlfriend, or you may have a very important competition or presentation and you will blow it. Fortunately this day is not very frequent and it doesn't last forever. Now imagine if that reality of having the worst possible things happening would never go away and will last for more than a simple day, and that situation is the situation in which the characters from The Road have to survive in. There has to be a moment where the pure desperation of nothing becoming better takes over the person's mind. One example of desperation is when the father says: "Will I see you at last? Have you have a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God." (pg. 12) This is a moment that by pure desperation of finding nothing to improve their lives the father screams for God and even starts questioning his heart and soul. This feeling of desperation and having nothing available to help you come out of the hole you are stuck in brings out the trust in God.

The Road is a book that since the beginning portrays the image of a world without hope and full of destruction. The first few lines say: "When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before." (pg. 3) Since the book is starting with this lines of darkness and no hope, I can predict that the book will be focused on how the world is brought to pieces and how hope with the passing of each day gets smaller and smaller. Also when the book mentions the part of the child I think that in that situation where no one else is around the father and son are two different persons but at the same time one. If one of these two persons happens to die then the other immediately will also die. If the kid dies then I think the father will most probably commit suicide because in all that desperation and solitude his motivation to keep going is to take his kid to a better place, but if he is gone then the father would think his life is worthless. The kid will also die without his father because he wouldn't know how to survive in this hostile environment. I don't really know what will happen in this book but seeing that it has been made a movie I am thinking that it will be and action filled book with a happy ending because movies most of the times have happy or at least endings where people survive.