The Road part 2:A

        Greetings readers!My assignment today is to pick some quotes from the book and talk about them.This is proving to be a difficult task because there are so many nice quotes to choose from.There's the one where the kid asks if they're going to die and the dad says no.Or the one where they find a house and go inside.No,not that house the other one.Or when the kid asks the dad again if they're going to die and he says no.How about when they're on the road and they're....walking!
        In all seriousness my favorite part of this section was a conversation between the father and the son.
"Do you think I'd lie to you?"
"No"
"But you think I'd lie to you about dying?"
"Yes"
"Okay, I might.But we're not dying."
This little tidbit reminded me of catch-22.It's a very sad conversation between a father who's trying to protect his kid and the child who sees through all of that.In fact most of their conversations seem to go like this.It makes me think back to class when we all said that we'd live for companionship.Would we live for this companionship?In which two people only talk about death and how cold and tired they are?It's interesting because the kid needs the dad for physical needs(food) while the dad needs the kid for emotional needs(a beacon of hope).One could not survive without the other.But does that constitute a good relationship?I don't think so.In my opinion their relationship isn't much of a relationship,it's more of a survival technique.
        The other part that I really like was when the boy "saw" another boy.I'm not sure if there was a boy there or if it was a figment of his imagination,a desperate need for friendship.It seems like its more like the latter which is really sad.I can't imagine how it must feel to be a young child with no friends with a father who has lived a life that you will never live.If I was the father I would have killed us both a long time ago.Now there are some who would say who are you to play God?To take a boy's life?To that I would answer:I'm not taking away anyone's life;I'm taking away their suffering. The child in question has spent most of his "life" feeling cold, scared,tired, and hungry and is probably going to spend the rest of his life that way.What kind of life is that?The father in the novel is religious so maybe he thinks suicide is bad.But considering he just killed a man(granted it was in self defense but still, he just killed a man) I would think suicide wouldn't be such a bad option at this point.That way at least his son could go to Heaven!All the father is doing is dragging his son along a desolate road,both literally and metaphorically. Ahhhhh..... the musings of a girl making judgements on decisions she will never have to make.Don't you just love when people do that?