The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a love story. Although the characters are nameless, the reader cannot help but love the boy and man and develop a deep and personal bond with them. Despite all the negative situation they find themselves in, there is so much positive that comes out of this story. This story is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where people literally fight to survive, killing other people just to eat them, reproducing only to eat newborns, and kidnapping tons of people who are stored in basements to be eaten later. . The man and boy are known as "good guys". The man always carries a gun with him and because the boy is so focused on remaining a "good boy", he hates that his father has it. The gun only has two bullets, one for the man and the last for the boy. When the man ends up using the gun, at some point in the story the boy gets sick and the man fears that his son will die until he discovers that he is still having bad dreams. According to man, if you dream of positive things it means that you are giving up and that death will come soon, while if you dream of bad things, you are still strong and are holding on to life. The boy gets better and the man gets worse. There are multiple moments where the reader stops and realizes that there is an inexplicable love here and puts themselves in the characters' shoes. For example, when the son receives a haircut from his father, when they play together in the waterfall and when they continue this journey together when death seems very close; all those times make you think; they establish a personal bond with a father-child bond but, even more, with a child-parent bond. It made me think of times when my mother and I went through hard times, clearly never as bad as these characters, but we persisted and made it through and still enjoyed our time and love together. Send a powerful one